[rktman]

Still no.

[Carry_Okie]

Pumping that much current into a car is scary.

Those would be “bus” bars.

(Christ taught, “lead us not into temptation,” but He wasn’t talking about puns, was He?”

[Larry Lucido]

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[rigelkentaurus]

I was under the impression that the faster a battery is recharged the more its life is degraded.

[Tell It Right]

Big deal. On a DC fast charger at 240kW or higher, I charge up to 85% in 10-15 minutes. During that 15 minutes I go to the restroom. In August I drove 1,740 miles in 23.5 hours of driving and charging time (not counting my 10 hour hotel stay and my half hour I stopped to do work on my laptop).

The tech already exists. What matters is that the govt tries to force people into EV's and also tries to "help" set up charging stations. No entrepreneur is going to spent the cost to set up charging near his restaurant or store if he's worried that the Dims will make good on their promises and set up free charging everywhere. The end result is few people want an EV that's being forced onto them, and the free market is hamstrung from setting up charging stations in many areas. (Though I can attest that the eastern seaboard has plenty of fast chargers. We travel that a lot. So an EV is good for many of our long trips.)

Granted, an EV is not good for many situations. I wouldn't have gotten an EV as our new, traveling car if we took many road trips in areas that have poor charging options, or if we drove up north during the winter (or drove in the south on days like today LOL). There are times our gas pickup is the best option.

Also an EV is not worth it unless you can set up charging at home and drive at least 12K miles per year on home charged miles (for us it's 16K miles annually, not counting about 10K miles charged away from home). The gas savings in an EV is real, but only if you're one of the few who does lots of driving while staying close to home (home charged miles). And don't get an EV as an only car.

[VTenigma]

So we charge all the cars up in 12 minutes and crash the grid, good plan.

[redangus]

Working hard to solve a manmade problem. That is the Left favorite pass time. Create a problem that has no reason to exist but does because of their faulty policies and then spend lots of money trying to solve said problem, spreading a little lucre around to their buddies in the process.

[aimhigh]

In the future, when the metal casings of all these batteries begin to fail, we will see fires all over the place.

[daniel1212]

One of a series of reported breakthroughs. Never hard back on any yet. Maybe this one works.