EVs alone won’t get us to where we want to go on clean energy

Charging times are an obstacle. That explains why they’re second cars.In “EVs are selling like hotcakes. Don’t rejoice just yet” (Opinion, Dec. 2), Ashley Nunes raises many appropriate policy issues about electric vehicles. However, like so many other such commentaries, his overlooks the challenge of the time it takes to charge one of these vehicles. He mentions the need for charging station infrastructure but not the logistics of charging. It takes just a few minutes to fill a car with gas. Today, it takes, at best, 30 or 40 minutes to charge an EV battery to about 80 percent capacity.There are about 145,000 gas stations in the United States. They may have 10 or more pumps each, all in use at busy times. And turnover is fast. How many charging stations will be needed when the fill-up time is 10 times as long? What are we going to do with our 4- and 7-year-olds fidgeting for…

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