EV Charging Un-Network... or the decentralization and stratification of EV charging infrastructure
As a Futurist I like to think about scenarios that could happen, not would or will happen. This is not about predicting the future but playing with what we know today and thinking about how these basic assumptions might be challenged in the future. In this earlier post I described a hypothesis where an aggregator could enter the market to help with the fragmentation, as of May 2023 some 13 different EV charging networks, and what this means for user experience. In this post I will challenge the assumption that we have inherited from fossil-based fuels: "car users go to the refill location, for petrol the petrol station, for EV the charging point" You can see the numbers of charging points available in Thailand today and these are by no means evenly distributed. There are other forms of friction in the experience. A few I mentioned include: What to do during the additional time needed to charge an EV compared to the drive-up to the pump experience. When charging in a sho...