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mikeash was asking, can you also charge it at home. It's a fair question, since most of the time the overnight home charge is all you need, and even more conven
by zaroth 9y ago
mikeash was asking, can you also charge it at home. It's a fair question, since most of the time the overnight home charge is all you need, and even more convenient than going to a gas station. So an EV that can do both is great, an EV that must be filled at a gas station only, that's actually a tricky trade-off, and reasonable to assume a large number of current EV owners would not make that trade-off.
In otherwords, if you're adaptable to home charging, then you really want home charging. Makes perfect sense to also observe all current EV owners are adaptable to home charging, by definition.
So strictly speaking adding it expands the market to different kinds of EV owners who would treat it like a gas car, just with no direct emissions. If you can add this feature without sacrificing anything else, I'd say that's a very big deal.
I assume that in reality this tech is a decade of hard work away from even being usable in an EV, so we'll never see it made.