What the journalist meant to say, I’m sure, is that the installed based of petrol pumps, having had a century’s head start, is more extensive than the new and emerging network of fast chargers being built out by governments and private industry, mostly over the last four years following the defeat of the Morrison government, and its implacable hostility to any form of renewable infrastructure.
The prospective EV driver doesn’t care why the infrastructure is poor; they care that it is poor. It might be good to know about potential future growth, and as the article is based on Om’s experience in Sydney, he explicitly notes that NSW plans to roll out chargers and how many.
There are things like charging to 100% when Om had no logistical reason to as an experiment – when this kind of data exists – is rude and obviously unnecessary, but then Birmingham makes these other ridiculous points, acting mad the article isn’t just running defense for EV infrastructure.
He doesn’t straight up say this is the fault of watever EV he is driving, but you can rest assured that it was totally the fault of whatever EV he was driving.
Uh, no, Om wants to check a parking lot he knows of as a sample someone living in that area might use in their day-to-day, finds that there are two of two chargers occupied, and one of them is by an ICE car. Where does Birmingham get: "but… Oh noes!… There’s only two charging spots in the whole fucking city ‘in a parking lot near work.’’ from? Om found an actual problem with the infrastructure, and out of every option, Birmingham reaches for a strawman acting like Om got bent out of shape over it.
This article is so needlessly whiny about normal things in Om’s article, making it a chore to get to actual, substantive critiques. Basically all of Birmingham’s actual critiques, meanwhile, are what you’d trivially glean from just read the original article – just layered under a cloying level of smarm. I’ve never seen this person’s blog until now, and I’m glad I haven’t; he’s insufferable, and I hope this isn’t nearly his “finest”.
The prospective EV driver doesn’t care why the infrastructure is poor; they care that it is poor. It might be good to know about potential future growth, and as the article is based on Om’s experience in Sydney, he explicitly notes that NSW plans to roll out chargers and how many.
There are things like charging to 100% when Om had no logistical reason to as an experiment – when this kind of data exists – is rude and obviously unnecessary, but then Birmingham makes these other ridiculous points, acting mad the article isn’t just running defense for EV infrastructure.
Uh, no, Om wants to check a parking lot he knows of as a sample someone living in that area might use in their day-to-day, finds that there are two of two chargers occupied, and one of them is by an ICE car. Where does Birmingham get: "but… Oh noes!… There’s only two charging spots in
the whole fucking city‘in a parking lot near work.’’ from? Om found an actual problem with the infrastructure, and out of every option, Birmingham reaches for a strawman acting like Om got bent out of shape over it.This article is so needlessly whiny about normal things in Om’s article, making it a chore to get to actual, substantive critiques. Basically all of Birmingham’s actual critiques, meanwhile, are what you’d trivially glean from just read the original article – just layered under a cloying level of smarm. I’ve never seen this person’s blog until now, and I’m glad I haven’t; he’s insufferable, and I hope this isn’t nearly his “finest”.