Imagine me filling up my gas tank in 3.
LOL
If people want to buy electric cars, that’s great.
They just shouldn’t be FORCED to buy electric cars.
A very valid point. Do gas stations still have the lever to allow you to keep filling up when you take your hand off the nozzle, so you can do your restroom break and such while you fill up? I haven't seen that in forever, but it may just be for my area.
But with the 10-15 minutes I charge at the fast chargers on long trips, I can walk away from the EV while it's charging to go to the restroom, maybe buy a coke, come back and it's usually done. At least, that's with all of the fast chargers on the road trips I usually take. The road trips that have few fast charging options are the ones I would take the gas pickup on. Just being practical about the pro's and con's of each car type without trying to force a one-size-fits-all attitude for either type (like the Dims do).
My take on the video, which I watched about 10 minutes of but it gave me no real details beyond history and hype. Details matter. Are they claiming 15 minutes to charge to 100%? That's worthy of attention, considering that existing batteries slow down charging past 80% or 85%.
Or is it 15 minutes to charge to the usual recommended 80%? Ho hum. I recently took 10-15 minutes to charge to 80% or 85% at virtually every charging stop from Canada to Alabama. Nothing special. Most EV cars (maybe not the EV pickups with the much larger batteries) made in the past few years can do that.
It’s good for the gas stations. Now they will have fifteen minutes to blast you with commercials instead of just three.
not with todays slow ass pumps that play commercials.
“ Imagine charging your electric car in just 15 minutes..
Imagine me filling up my gas tank in 3.”
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Three minutes? Preposterous! ;-)
If I can charge my car in 15 minutes in my garage, while doing other things, that's a win.
“Imagine me filling up my gas tank in 3.”
So you saved 12 minutes and lost $25 ...
Imagine the odds that f finding a charger capable of charging the battery in the 15 minutes, now imagine how h odds of the charger actually being functional.
AND-—ALWAYS being able to carry an extra can......