Tesla files trademark paperwork for restaurant concept

Re:Tesla files trademark paperwork for restaurant concept by jfengel on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:46PM (#27386375)

Out of curiosity, what's the 20%-80% time? As I understand it, that's the range you want it to be in most of the time.

It means you only actually use 60% of the max capacity, and max capacity is only for rare-ish extreme cases.

But if it's only, say, 15 minutes for 20%-80%, that's not really all that far out of keeping with a 5 minute gas fill-up.

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Re:Tesla files trademark paperwork for restaurant concept by bryanlarsen on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:56PM (#27386477)

In real life, a 5 minute gas fill-up and a 15 minute charge are approximately equal. You don't have to wait at the charger like you do for gas, so it can charge while use use the bathroom and buy a coffee.

But unfortunately 20-80 is only 3-4 minutes faster than 0-80, just over 25 minutes give or take a few minutes depending on temperature etc. Like cell phones, car batteries can charge a lot faster when they're empty.

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