How long does it take to recharge it?
“Regardless, solid-state batteries will also allow for faster charge times—four to six times faster in some cases.”
I would prefer a quick charging battery and lots of charging stations, than a longer range battery that takes an hour to charge.
“How long does it take to recharge it”
what do you do at night while you sleep? My Teslas charge in the steel building in less time than it takes me to sleep. Most of the time in an hour or two why? Because to put back in the 30 ish miles I used for the day off a 50 amp plug is less than an hour.
My Model 3 LR has a 375 mile range that’s three round trips to Ft. Worth and back with range to spare or 8 round trip to downtown Dallas and back. But why it takes 20 seconds to plug it to the wall when I exit the vehicle and let it so it’s thing. I know I know but not what if you don’t own a home and have a plug. Well given that the 96% of all daily drives total are under 30 miles that means once every ten days find supercharger. The average person goes more than 300 miles from home twice per year for such low use fringe cases rent a vehicle and save the depreciation on your POV. I rent unlimited miles for $180 or less a week specifically to put 1800+ miles in that week on someone else’s depreciating asset.
I had not owned a vehicle that would go more than 250 miles on a tank until 2018 every single one before that was less than 250 per tank. My first was my Volvo S60 that would go 420 on a 17.5 gallon tank and that was with less than 1 gal left. Usually the fuel light would pop on at 350 or so.
800 miles is so far above what the typical person would drive in one sitting. Are there edge cases sure the uber driver who drives 400 miles per day which is a 12 hour shift averaging 34 mph. That’s what is the be expected in suburban and urban use. My trip A odo has 8700 miles on it and the avg mph is 33 mph over that many miles of DFW suburban, urban and motorway use. This means even a uber driver could go two days between charging the avg suburbanites who drive 30 or less miles per day need a charge once every 26 days. It’s in your head about charging time 100% someone who doesn’t own or know anything about how it really works. A Model 3 would need a 160kWh pack to go 800 miles, at the nornal V3 supercharger rate of 250kw it would take 38 min to go from 0-100% solid state packs will take full 2-5C rates 250la in a 160kWh pack is 1.5C normal LFP cells will do that today.
So you would need to find a supercharger once every 26 days for 38 min and this is somehow a issue GTFO with that nonsense. If you have a L2 240V at home you don’t even need that take the 20 seconds and plug it in is plugging in a hair dryer hard? It’s that simple. The rest of the world is not on an archaic 120v240v split phase. China and the EU have 400v triple phase to the curb or condo/apartment decks and also individual homes. 440V/3P can put in 160kwh in one hour with 144 amps per phase or more typical 50 amps per phase in 2.8 hours again people sleep for 8.
I would like to have a solid state pack that’s 80 miles double the avg suburbanite distance with a small 2cyl 50kw GDI high compression Miller cycle at 45% BSFC running on anything liquid from petrol to any alcohol to LPG or.CNG 14:1 comp 18:1 expansion running at a single speed it’s peak brake specific fuel efficiency point directly into the BMS in a 5 passenger sedan that would return 100 mpg on E10. China has exactly this the BYD Qi returns 2.2L/100km driven by journalists in the real world over a 1300 mile drive that’s 108 mpg for thuse who are not numerate. 80 miles off the plug then 1200+ more out of the small fuel tank if you need it 99% of all drives are under 80 miles it’s edge cases that are not. You do not design for edge cases that’s shitty engineering.