I personally dislike (intensely) the anxiety of finding a charging station when you are low and need one. I dislike the forethought and planning that you need to employ to avoid that as much as possible, including all the applications that are built in to tell you where the charging stations near you are.
I lived during the gas crises of the 1970’s, and I hated that with a white-hot burning passion. I almost ran out of gas in my little MG Midget with all my worldly belongings stuffed into it on the Cross-Bronx Expressway in New York where there were burnt out husks of cars on cinderblocks that I passed.
I don’t like the prospect of pulling into a charging station area to find they are all in use and a line has formed.
I don’t like the possibility of barely making it to a charging station only to find they are inoperable because thieves have cut the cables for the copper in them or they are simply broken...or there is a power issue where the region is at peak use and experiencing throttled levels or brown-outs.
They may eventually get batteries that can charge anywhere you can plug in, and do it in two minutes. But we aren’t there now, and won’t be before I die.
“They may eventually get batteries that can charge anywhere you can plug in, and do it in two minutes. But we aren’t there now, and won’t be before I die.”
Sigh,
China has been kicking butts and taking names again CATL these are not lab toys they are production items. The USA just banned them here. At least until Gavin or AOC sits in the WH.
Oh and the GBT standard already in China is rated at 1 megawatt so yeah you can charge in 3 min and 40 seconds no one cares about the time if it’s under 5 min total.
Here is what you are not allowed to have.
10% to 35%: 1 minute
10% to 80%: 3 minutes 44 seconds
10% to 98%: 6 minutes 27 seconds
At -30°C to 98%: 9 minutes
“After 1,000 ultra-fast charging cycles, the battery maintains a State of Health (SoH) above 90%”
Real EV owners charge 10-80% that’s the window for daily use and where you get thousands of cycles as in over half million miles for a 300+ mile pack size. Industry standard is SOH 80% not 90 so 2000 cycles is 600,000 miles in a 300 mile pack. This pack is in a 1000km range vehicle so 1000 cycles is 1,000,000km with 90%SOH IF that could be sold here it would rightfully bloodbath the American auto cabal. Do better big 3.
Notice the -30C that colder than almost 99% of CONUS and it only adds 3 min to 6 for a 98% the 10-80 is still under 4 min it won’t matter for real people.
Don’t get all butthurt the GOP is setting up a massive pendulum swing in both the midterms and 28’ that’s on them the reality is the next Dem POTUS removes all the silly tariffs messing up the stock market and isolating the USA from our neighbors Canada and Mexico. Live in reality it’s when not if.