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Comment by kube-system

14 hours ago

Chargefinder.

We're talking about people taking long rural trips -- stopping at a 50kw charger adds 50% of time to an 8 hour trip -- nobody driving a gasoline car would stop for that long. You'd need a 250kw charger to do what a person would normally do on a trip like that -- stop, piss, stretch your legs and get some fast food. Nobody who drives that route wants a 4 hour layover at the Speedee Mart gas station in Ainsworth, Nebraska -- if they can get the charger to work.

You're shifting goal posts now.

But yeah those 10 people that regularly drive those routes should probably stick with their ice vehicles.

  • Nah, at no point above did I mean "fast charger" as in "sit at a gas station for 4 hours at a 50kw charger"

8 hours. That’s about 900km right?

You’d need about 135 kwh total energy at 15kwh/100km efficiency. Assuming you leave with full battery - thats about 60kwh or a bit over an hour of charge at 50kw.