[RayChuang88]

If Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is right, by 2025 we may have electric automobiles about the size of a Honda Civic go 800 km (497 miles) on a single charge and get recharged in about 15 minutes at a commercial direct current charging station. In that scenario, 56.2 mpg would be considered a gas guzzler because who’d want to buy a gasoline-fueled automobile when you can drive from Sacramento, CA almost to San Diego on a single charge of the battery?

[Flavius]

Well Germans are good with edicts

[wastedyears]

Then there’s the strain on the power grid that they seemingly want to ignore.

[DaxtonBrown]

[If Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is right]

He’s smoking dope. Do you understand the amount of amps you have to push over 15 minutes to store that much power? Do you also understand the batteries needed for that also don’t exist? Do you understand that the power plants don’t exist? Unicorns pooping skittles.

[DBrow]

That’s a lot of Joules to transfer in fifteen minutes. Figure the gasoline equivalent of that.

Each recharge station, if it can handle more than one car at a time, would be a multi-megawatt electrical substation.

[reg45]

When it’s available at a reasonable price, I might be interested.

[gunsequalfreedom]

If Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is right, by 2025 we may have electric automobiles about the size of a Honda Civic go 800 km (497 miles) on a single charge and get recharged in about 15 minutes at a commercial direct current charging station. In that scenario, 56.2 mpg would be considered a gas guzzler because who’d want to buy a gasoline-fueled automobile when you can drive from Sacramento, CA almost to San Diego on a single charge of the battery?

Interesting side note on that one...with that vehicle you will be paying a tax per mile instead of a tax per gallon. Already in the works.