By 2040, battery-electric cars and fuel-cell cars would have the same range (and same recharging/refueling rate) as today’s gasoline-fueled cars. In fact, battery charging rates would be almost the same as fueling a gasoline fueled car possibly as early as 2026.
And the power plants that will generate the electricity to charge all those batteries will be fueled by fairy dust.
Ray, you’re toking too much Hopium. Not going to happen unless you swap out battery packs. Tesla tried that with a crappy business model and it failed. You owned the battery, so you had to drive back to that recharge station to pick up the batter that you owned.
YOU LIE.
But the “filling stations” will not have the capacity.
Do you have any concept what power flow requirement are needed to fill up multiple batteries at the rate necessary to equal the driving range and fill time of a typical gas powered car?
15 gallons of gas is equivalent to about half (.495) a MWH. That means to fill an equivalent battery in 15 minutes you’d need to pump in energy at a rate of 2 MW per car. For a small 8 pump filling station that’s a capacity of 16 MW. We’d need that much electrical transmission capacity, or more, going to every filling station in the country.
The country’s entire electrical distribution system would need to be replaced from the ground up and replaced with one capable of orders of magnitude more power generation and transmission. Replaced. It is flat out not possible to upgrade the current system to meet that need.
Not going to happen.