I know from my time back in the trench digging industry that a huge part of the charger lack issue is caused by the simple fact that ordinary superchargers gobble 150 kW electrical power a piece, which means that six of these things put a peak load of 1 MW to the net. The newer generations are said to be up 500 kW each... so you're looking at up to 3 MW or even 10x more, if you're an Autobahn rest place and aim for a load of electric trucks to be charged!
Your typical gas station, however, has a base load of tiny ~ 22 kW (per [1], divided by 8800h/year). The challenge is now that both the 10 kV electrical uplink to the gas station itself and, especially in rural parts of the country, also the 50/110 kV distribution backbone has to be upgraded, and this is not cheap.
This is the one big advantage of fossil (or synthetic) fuels: the energy density is incredibly high and the cost of shipping a fuel tanker truck is tiny compared to building out all that electricity network.
Makes sense. But this sounds like plumbing vs. carrying water in buckets from the river. The plumbing is more expensive up front, but cheaper long term.
We are talking about investments to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars. Who is supposed to pay for this? Or, who is supposed to build it? Europe has a decent shortage of construction workers on one side and in city/government planning and approval on the other side.
In my opinion this is a task for the government if it wants to make sure people move away from fossil fuels, but the US president is holding the country hostage over a wall while the infrastructure is falling apart and Europe is locked up by populists and Brexit so no movement from there (and we Germans can't get HV transmission lines built across Germany either without lots of NIMBY protests and tons of wasted money).
My generation however will have to live with the consequences, and that sucks.
Your typical gas station, however, has a base load of tiny ~ 22 kW (per [1], divided by 8800h/year). The challenge is now that both the 10 kV electrical uplink to the gas station itself and, especially in rural parts of the country, also the 50/110 kV distribution backbone has to be upgraded, and this is not cheap.
This is the one big advantage of fossil (or synthetic) fuels: the energy density is incredibly high and the cost of shipping a fuel tanker truck is tiny compared to building out all that electricity network.
[1] https://www.next-mobility.news/auch-verbrenner-fahren-mit-st...