As has been pointed out in numerous prior threads, the infrastructure required by the physics of this type of massive current transfer is not currently feasible at scale. Additionally, current batteries will suffer immensely in terms of loss of capacity.
And spent batteries will leave behind a staggering environmental disaster that has to be dealt with.
You are correct. The electric car is a "nitch market" product. It makes a lot of sense for a daily commute to work and the ability to recharge it using 220 volt house current providing it is economic as compared to internal combustion engines in relationship to total cost per mile over the life of the vehicle.
If you are going long distances you need internal combustion engines.
Yope,
It is not that hard conceptually to build a charger of Gigawatt power which would charge the car in seconds. You just need high voltage and huge wires.
Problems - is it safe? That power will kill (evaporate) one instantly!
Can the battery sustain it?
Can somebody provide that kind of instant power (infrastructure!).
What about the cost of wires? Great target for copper salvaging vandals!
“Additionally, current batteries will suffer immensely in terms of loss of capacity.”
Seems like that much current into the battery would overheat it.
If the charging efficiency of an EV battery were 99%, meaning 1% of the charging wattage would go to heat, 10 KW would be heating the battery.
Wikipedia says the charging efficiency of a LI battery is 80-90 percent.
But this company must have something that works for some batteries.