No one should have to know that much about a vehicle....if so it’s not worth owning IMO.
I know because it interests me.
The avg joe only needs to know the new CATL equipped cars if you could buy one here would go 625 miles and take 4 min to fill up on the go or you could fill it up at home over night for the equivalent of 67 cents per gallon of gasoline.
That last number will be the selling factor.
My model 3 goes 4 miles on a single kWh.
It works out to 2.25 cents per mile at Texas retail price of power 9 cents per kWh.
My Volvo S60 used to get 28mpg that’s better than the light duty fleet average of 25.5mpg overall.
At 28 mpg gasoline would need to cost 63 cents per gallon to equal 2.25 cents per mile in energy costs. It’s actually 67 when you include AC/DC>pack losses from the L2 on the wall.
So you can pay $3.99 which I saw last night near by or the equivalent of 67 cents.
Yeah that’s all you need to know.
O and my Model 3 is $20,000 less total than the S60 it replaced from mile one it has been less to operate.
I won’t own an ICE ever again. I laugh at people putting $4+ per gallon in the tank , honk and wave like suckers.
Energy generation and reliable safe transport of those electrons to where they can deploy into these vehicles in a few minutes … and as noted without criminal professionals stripping everything bare.
FFS they’re stealing hydrant covers in Detroit…