EV/Lithium, page-991

...like I said, if you want to make it happen, you can't leave it to the free market to determine the rollout.

...if it becomes unprofitable and risky to do so, they would step back and defer plans, rendering EV growth backwards.

...so 'build and they will come' is not such a conviction faith for EVs.

...in this respect, free markets could not do what China did. They instruct and companies toe the line. Biden gave so much subsidies in his IRA (Inflation Reduction Act), it did little in terms of infra, bulk went into company coffers.
Power grid foils Ampol’s big EV charger plans
Ben Potter and Simon Evans
Updated Aug 19, 2024 – 7.09pm,first published at 1.33pm


Ampol, one of the country’s largest petrol retailers, has dialled back plans to triple the number of electric vehicle chargers because of power grid limitations in a blow to government hopes of pushing motorists towards cleaner cars in big numbers by 2030.
The company’s chief executive, Matt Halliday, said it would not be possible to expand the number of charging bays from 92 to 300 by the end of this year because of difficulties connecting chargers to the grid which is already struggling to cope with an influx of renewable energy generation.