Your dilemma is exactly why Wheatley thinks their solution has a huge TAM and also why they (and any others working on the problem) will be working round the clock to produce their products for a very long time.
Editing the post to add that your need to drive long distances in one go and therefore need fast charging is, as Wheatley describes with statistics, not typical of the average use for cars today. It might slow EV adoption for some people, but for the average person–and even the average fleet vehicle–you only need about 30 miles. Listen to the podcast.
It’s also why their new acquisition in Serbia and the patents to have streetlights provide EV charging is so necessary. They just closed that acquisition at the tail end of 2023–they just filed to delay their year-end report because of the added work to integrate that into their filing.
Wheatley makes the point that a lot of the charging needs can be met if people can charge while they’re parked at work. He sees that as far easier and feasible than trying to have home charging, especially given the number of households with multiple cars. Once they’re all EVs, just paying the utility bills–let alone having the space at home–for grid-connected charging gets prohibitive for most people.
He sees not just room, but necessity, for many other innovators in charging solutions to enter the space.
Below is a video from 8 days ago with a Beam marketing person talking for about 17 minutes with folks from Parking and Transportation in New York State. They asked him to come after hearing that New York City was using Beam Global and figured they needed to check it out.
The production quality of the video isn’t great, but the use cases he describes are helpful.
JR