Posted on 02/15/2020 4:47:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Still a waste of time and money. I couldn’t go to.Jsspee, without adding an extra eight hours to my trip.
Depends on what type of charging station you would use.
The ones that are “fast charger” stations have been 100kW for a few years. The problem up until now is that most EV’s could only absorb (or suck in) about 50-80kW.
New stations being built now by Volta and Electrify America are much more powerful and the cars are following suit.
I’d say in about 3 years you could make a 350 mile drive and stop only once for 20-30 minutes (lunch?).
I’m excited about what Buc’ees is proposing to do in the SE. Those will be game-changers for interstate travel and the EV.
Sure, and where possible, the charging stations will charge your credit card, as well as your car.
A thought about electric cars. If your battery runs down, and you call AAA, will they stay around to fully charge your battery? At least a half hour?
Some smart person is going to figure out how to run his home by charging for free at the Interstate Rest Stop. You’d be kind of a fool not to.
When you can charge your car in the same amount of time it would take to fill your tank and drive four hundred miles with aircon in the summer and running the heater in winter I might, maybe, consider.
They haven’t solved the cold problem.
There are folks out there trying that.
Wouldn’t surprise me. Battery back-up tech has really made some strides recently.
True, but it’s getting better.
I don’t think Lithium Ions are the best for extreme cold temps. My EV loses about 15% battery life in temps below 40 degrees still. It was a lot worse 4 years ago.
Depends on your batter capacity.
If it’s only 10% charged it could take 30-40 minutes plus now.
If I pull into a super-charger station at 50% charge, I can sit there for about 15 minutes or so. Not bad, but I don’t drive a Tesla either.
Lines are nil for the most part. In about 3 years they’ll have an EV out with the range you mentioned and better tolerances for cold weather.
It is all about removing the ability to move freely. There isn’t enough copper in the world to electrify America, much less the world.
Hydrocarbons remain the best option because it meets all the practical demands we need to fuel our cats.
how exactly does a charging station work?
Do you plug in 120 volts, 240 volts, 480 volts? Single phase? three phase?
Can you have one in your driveway?
Are electric vehicles compatible to all charge stations? is there standardization?
I learned LONG ago that ‘specifications’ are true.
I was designing a chip into a circuit; using the published specs about it.
It turned out that while each data point was 100% accurate; they were NOT accurate all at the same time!
You want range in your car? you got it (as long as you power down every thing else.)
You want cool air in the summer? You got it! (Just don’t think you’ll drive as far.)
You want a car that doesn’t burst into flames? Well; it ain’t a PINTO; is it?
This is being driven by the big tech companies and most auto manufacturers are converting their old combustion plants to EV assembly plants (Ford/Chevy/etc.)
LG just landed a huge battery plant in Ohio, SK Battery in GA. This is the future, like it or not.
Next year BMW and Mercedes will have EV options for every car model they make. VW is following suit.
It’s going to take time, but carbons are going away. Even Industrial plants are replacing their fleets with electric jockey trucks, forklifts, and refrigeration.
Just like your Iphone.
You can get a cheap level 2 charger installed in your garage for less than $300 and it’ll charge your 190 mile range car that has 50% battery charge in about 3-4 hours (just plug it over night).
Most EV’s come with a 120V plug that looks like your clothes dryer connector and an adapter that can plug into your normal outlet.
EV’s have standardized outlets (Tesla’s don’t but they offer adapters). It’s very convenient.
Test drive one!
thanks
Let me know when they can recharge an SUV in 5 minutes. Until then, no thank you.
Just wait until they make ambulances EVs.then things will get expensive.
Are there tiny nuclear reactors in the charging stations?
I prophesy a copper theft crisis.
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