Infrastructure, most notably the availability of charging stations, was an important factor for Ms. Casteel in her purchase decision.
Among people who are considering an electric vehicle, the study found that driving range and the availability of charging stations were the top concerns.
Reference [1] analyzed the problems related to battery charging management, the uncertainty surrounding the monitoring of the state of charge (SOC), the limited availability of charging infrastructure and the long time required to recharge; problems that have generated range anxiety.
On the other hand, the high purchase costs of electric vehicles, the limits imposed by low availability of charging infrastructure and its coverage, the charging time and the limited battery range often do not cope with main requirements of drivers' daily activity patterns.
This can be attributed to the fact that HEVs exhibit low switching costs (e.g., no reliance on the availability of charging stations), whereas HFCVs and EVs possess attributes that are unfamiliar to consumers (e.g., driving range) and require technical infrastructure (e.g., to recharge the car at home) [31,62].
The difficulty in finding public charging stations is even causing conflict in California where the number of electric cars has far outpaced the availability of charging stations.
"That means standardization around charging for vehicles -- at the moment, it's not a standardized market -- as well as availability of charging points".
Although histidinol and thapsigargin induce transcription of ATF4-regulated genes, they also inhibit protein synthesis, both directly (e.g., by limiting the availability of charged histidine tRNAs) and indirectly, by causing eIF2α phosphorylation.
