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Re:Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with ... by t0mas88 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:33AM (#29241650)
It's being solved from both ends, on one side fast-charging is getting faster and on the other end the range is increasing. If the range is 600+ miles, you probably wouldn't mind a 30 minutes charging time because you want to stop to eat anyway.

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.

Re:Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with ... by protomyth on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:51AM (#29241899)
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.

Re:Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with ... by fouc on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:44AM (#29241789)
Yeah good point about higher range reducing the pressure on fast charging.