“When we get to 600, 700, 800 miles on a charge that takes 15 - 20 minutes, in a reasonably priced car, the game is over for internal combustion.”
Inexplicably or ignorantly, you are completely ignoring infrastructure.
Tesla is building a 200 bay Bucces sized Supercharger they don’t have a habit of failure their engineers are world class. They will string in 66.4 kilovolt distribution from the closest substation and use on-site 66kv to 480/3phase in banks of 50 chargers that’s a 12,500Kva transformer a common size in medium voltage power engineering. They would need four of them on-site. The site they chose is near a nuclear plant you can bank pun intended they will hardwire to the substation driven by that plant.
Speaking of infrastructure, I’d love to ask of the politicians pushing this crap one simple question: What are you proposing we use to pave and repair the thousands of miles of roads, driveways and parking lots that are currently made with asphalt? Asphalt, of which the main ingredient is bitumen, is a byproduct of the gasoline refining industrial process you’re hoping to make obsolete. So what entirely new, non-oil substance are you going to invent and scale up to rival evil earth killing asphalt? And while we’re at it, you need 30 gallons of oil to make one set of car tires, so leaving oil behind, are we going back to wooden spokes and steel hoops?
Some of the lowest IQs are in politics, I swear….
“ When we get to 600, 700, 800 miles on a charge that takes 15 - 20 minutes, in a reasonably priced car, the game is over for internal combustion.”
Inexplicably or ignorantly, you are completely ignoring infrastructure.
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Party pooper. Spoiling all the fun. 😿👍🏻
Indeed. How much voltage must be pumped in at what amperage to give a 15-min charging time? Now consider a small service station with just 10 charging stations. What do the power lines to that station look like? How much infrastructure will have to be built to deliver THAT much power reliably to ALL the various stations that would be required? Who is going to pay to upgrade the power lines in remote (or even semi-remote) locations?