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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by stephengillie on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:38AM (#17895574)
My Camry Hybrid can have 500+ miles of range recharged in a few minutes. That's the "killer app" that electric has to beat, one way or another. Spending multiple hours recharging is like driving 30mph on the freeway.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by layoric on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:47AM (#17896227)
The killer app of EVs with access to home chargers (even slow ones) is that going somewhere else to fill up the car will be a rare occurrence. UK stats show EVs only charge outside home or work ~7% of the time. For a minority of people, regular fast charging will be a must but vast majority of people will just stop going else where to fill up their cars.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by colordrops on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:54AM (#17895806)
It's moving quickly. The Tesla Model 3 can charge over 300 miles in less than an hour. It's coming fast.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by adrianN on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:07AM (#17895839)
Once it becomes easy to charge your car overnight, e.g. because every street lamp is a charging station, I don't think the charging time matters very much anymore.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by greglindahl on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:52AM (#17895620)
And yet hybrid sales are low, despite your enthusiasm.
Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by giobox on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:11AM (#17895672)
Hybrid or not isn’t really the point.

A gas car refills to max range almost instantly. It just so happens this Camry example has particularly good range on one tank of gas by virtue of being a hybrid, but the point is no more diminished with any other ICE car. Many non-hybrid models will also comfortably manage 500+ miles on a single tank.

All that said, I suspect there is a “good enough” tipping point for EVs, especially now that we are seeing some manage ~300 miles on one charge, which is more than enough for many commutes/weekly shopping trips etc.

Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by greglindahl on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:15AM (#17895683)
Uh, OK, I thought it was, but you're free to disagree.

I do agree that there's a ton of evidence that Tesla's S/X have plenty of range for most people to not be bothered by it. And it doesn't appear to matter to these folks that a hybrid would fill up faster, which brings us back to hybrids.