Re:Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with ...
by protomyth on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:51AM
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If the range is 600+ miles
The other problem is that range estimates do not take into account cold weather and no garage. I bought a hybrid and I probably should have bought an ICE that got in the 40mpg instead of the 55mpg hybrid since winter is very bad on batteries.
On the other hand fast charging still has issues with capacity. If several cars want to fast-charge at the same time, there either aren't enough spots or when there are the charging rate is decreased because there isn't enough power available to fast-charge many cars. And this is with a minority of cars being electric, if everyone switches to EVs this problem becomes much bigger.
There is a lot of work to do on the grid and maybe some form of local storage of energy at larger highway charging stops.