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Spain: Cold Weather and Easter Traffic Reveal Frailty of Electric Vehicle Dream

In Spain, long lines at electric car charging stations over the holiday travel weekend showed what can be expected from a future filled with electric cars.

Easter weekend is a peak travel time in Spain, with beach hotels fully booked and summer homes enjoyed by city-dwellers taking refuge in rural villages. El Debate reports that this year saw huge lines at the country’s main electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Waiting in line for as long as two hours just to plug in EVs was just the prelude to even more time spent charging them.

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