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No, but to clarify:
Combustion engines will never be phased out completely. Gasoline, as dirty as it is, contains lots of energy, is fairly cheap, and useful for things like busses, trucks, and other engines. My usual cheerleading about EV is for passenger cars.
Charging stations are not property - the connectors are standard so any car can plug into any charging station. Tesla makes Superchargers that, when charging a Tesla, charge them in 20 minutes, and do it for free. There are other super chargers for other cars but none in Montreal here yet that I know of so I haven't tested it myself.
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there are at least 3 standards for EV fast charge connections, as far as i know. + tesla's. I am not sure how many charging stations offer all 3.
not sure what the big deal is with seeing that the charging network still needs to grow. That's not an assault on EV, that's simply stating that it's all still growing and it's not realistic to think BMW is going all in within 10 years.
buses and trucks around here are being converted to natural gas and hybrid electrics. Coca-cola trucks here are all hybrids.