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\"charging<\/a>Electric cars are selling like hot cakes in Japan.\u00a0 It the third largest market in the world.\u00a0 The reasons for this are unclear but it has more charging points than petrol stations according to a recent survey by Nissan.\u00a0 When it comes to electric cars the Japanese seem to be suffering less from range anxiety than others.\u00a0 Presumably this lack of concern is due to 40,000 charging points compared to 35,000 petrol stations.\u00a0 This is about the same as the whole of Western Europe.<\/p>\n

We should not exaggerate though not all these these charging points would be public some will be in peoples garages.\u00a0 Also petrol stations have multiple pumps.\u00a0 With each car taking half an hour to charge to 80% capacity then being stuck behind a couple of others in a queue for a single charging point could be a very frustrating experience.\u00a0 Before electric cars really take off there need to be lot more charging points including multiple ones (as well as longer ranges).<\/p>\n

Electric cars selling so well in Japan is somewhat of a surprise with a potential shortage of electricity although there has been a massive amount of renewables investment since 2011.\u00a0 Questions still hover over electric cars though, not least over lithium supplies.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electric cars are selling like hot cakes in Japan.\u00a0 It the third largest market in the world.\u00a0 The reasons for this are unclear but it has more charging points than petrol stations according to a recent survey by Nissan.\u00a0 When … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-electric-cars"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week -Electric cars are selling like hot cakes in Japan - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6844\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6844\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=6844\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week -Electric cars are selling like hot cakes in Japan - 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