Comment by pornel
3 years ago
I think the range problem is already solved by the 800V/250kW+ charging. A 20-minute break every 3 hours of driving is within reason, and it makes the range effectively infinite.
I know there are people with steel bladders who also need to tow a boat every day, through a desert, in the snow, uphill both ways, but for commuting and occasional road trips it's already pretty good. Just don't try this with Leaf and its previous-gen peers that are 5 times slower than the state of the art.
But the only 800v cars are the extreme upper end of the price scale even for EVs. I think currently it is only the Lucid Air and the Porsche Taycan, both extreme luxury even in the expensive EV segment. And the infrastructure for non-Teslas just isn't there. The state of charging infrastructure sans Tesla's Supercharger network is really, really bad in the US right now, to the point that major EV influencers are just straight up recommending not yet switching to an EV just because of this.
I'm talking 1/2 of the stations broken/bricked on average, another 1/4 not delivering at all or not delivering the promised (250kW+) output, so you're stuck with 50kW in the middle of nowhere and your 20 minute stop now takes you 2.5h with no amenities around.
Check the Out of Spec channel on Youtube for frequent updates on this type of stuff.
The Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 are both 800v charging too.
Oh, thanks for the correction, I knew I was forgetting someone. Yea, those 2 (same car I believe, just rebadged?) are supposed to be pretty awesome. And at low $40k entry level they're maybe not priced cheap, but cheap-ish in the EV world, especially for vehicles with 800v systems!
What does a Lucid get you over these? 1,000HP. Does anyone really need that? So why pay 4x the price?
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