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Recharging electric cars requires plugging it in and walking away to do something else instead. Electric car fuelling is a parallel operation, not a serial one

Recharging electric cars requires plugging it in and walking away to do something else instead. Electric car fuelling is a parallel operation, not a serial one. Rapid charging happens on the longer journeys that require it while you're using the restroom, or grabbing a bite to eat or drink, or simply improving your safety by having a snooze And if you get an efficient electric car with a high miles/kWh rating - rather than a status symbol electron guzzler - then there is less time required anyway. There's a mental paradigm shift required when you have an electric car to one where you have a fully fuelled car every morning by default. Once you've made that switch you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

bluGill 7y ago
The topic here is long trips. For most trips you are right, it isn't a big deal. However if you are doing the yearly family vacation to the national parks your car will spend a significant amount of time in a charger that you would rather be driving.
ars 7y ago
10 minutes. That's the longest I'm willing to wait at stops. Maybe 15 minutes if I had to. And stop no more often than every 3 hours. So I'd need about 200 miles of range in 10 minutes of charging. Can they do that?
- sib 7y ago
  Peak charging rate currently for a Tesla Model 3 at a v3 Supercharger is a bit over 1,000 miles per hour. It can't maintain that rate for very long to avoid battery degradation, but it could very well do 160 miles in 10 minutes or 200 in 15. So... not quite yet, but not out of the range of the possible in the near future.
- neilwilson 7y ago
  The recommended safety advice is to stop every two hours or so and rest for fifteen minutes each time. Otherwise you increase your chances of having an accident due to fatigue. The EU rules for driving HGV allow you to drive 2 hours, have a 15 minute break, drive a further 2.5 hours and have a 30 minute break. Those are enforced by law and tachographs

bluGill 7y ago

The topic here is long trips. For most trips you are right, it isn't a big deal. However if you are doing the yearly family vacation to the national parks your car will spend a significant amount of time in a charger that you would rather be driving.

ars 7y ago

10 minutes. That's the longest I'm willing to wait at stops. Maybe 15 minutes if I had to. And stop no more often than every 3 hours. So I'd need about 200 miles of range in 10 minutes of charging. Can they do that?

sib 7y ago
Peak charging rate currently for a Tesla Model 3 at a v3 Supercharger is a bit over 1,000 miles per hour. It can't maintain that rate for very long to avoid battery degradation, but it could very well do 160 miles in 10 minutes or 200 in 15. So... not quite yet, but not out of the range of the possible in the near future.
neilwilson 7y ago
The recommended safety advice is to stop every two hours or so and rest for fifteen minutes each time. Otherwise you increase your chances of having an accident due to fatigue. The EU rules for driving HGV allow you to drive 2 hours, have a 15 minute break, drive a further 2.5 hours and have a 30 minute break. Those are enforced by law and tachographs