"May...soon..."
If it is true this would seem to represent a significant advance in EV charging, and abilities. Much better cold-weather performance as well.
Both companies represent the best of the best, globally.
And it may not. I will bet real money it will not.
Honestly you just need a basic amount of reason with a touch of fundamental science to know this is NOT realistic given current technologies and infrastructure.
Saw a EV truck charging last night near my work, as I left at 7:00. I saw the same vehicle charging this morning when I cam into work at 06:30.
Wow. So awesome it has to charge 2 times in a day!
Why do I suspect the more they push the battery capacity and the fast charging, the higher the risk of catastrophic discharges?
Can there be a market for used EVs if you price in battery replacement?
More job security for African child-slave lithium-miners!
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Always be charging
There really needs to be some standardized rating of these batteries. Have it rated at 32*F after 250 full charge cycles, rate the recharge rate in average miles per minute, lastly implement some fixed load requirement to approximate accessory loads. From what I can tell none of this implemented by the EPA.
How much will it raise the price the car?
Those boys talk WAY too much. That means they don’t know the subject matter so resorting to hand-waving and loud talking.
My BS filter hit the peg.
1. 15 min “fast charge” is still about 3x that of regular gas cars.
2. Tesla chargers don’t work with other EVs.
3. If the ENTIRE Rutabaga charging program as enacted, there would still be only about 1/4 the number of chargers as gas “stations.” But there are probably 450,000 gas PUMPS in the country, vs likely about (again, if fully enacted in six years) only 40,000 EV chargers, of which those cannot service all EVs.
4. This doesn’t include wait time at EV chargers. In Kollyfornia there is significant wait time, which has to be added to refuel time.
A head to head challenge of a Tesla vs. a gas car that had to actually be somewhere on a timetable would show how incredibly bad EVs are.
And the best, globally, is to jump past EVs straight to Hydrogen.
The key words being “may” and “soon”
Almost every day we hear about huge battery breakthroughs. They never translate into the real world.
I read about CATL a few months ago, looked to invest but they’re private.
Well, isn’t that special. Have they made the batteries fireproof yet?
My vehicle has a 500 mile range and refuel in 5 -7 minutes at 50000 locations all across the Usa
"May...soon..."
I don’t believe them, and I wouldn’t park a car that might catch on fire in my garage.
I wonder what kind of charging station you need for that kind of time/mileage. I doubt it is something you could wire in your home. But, this is good news for EVs.