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No, I'm saying the 36kW charger is unacceptable. A 150kW charger is the bare minimum that might be acceptable and you're adding about 10% to your travel time fo
by jjk166 5y ago
No, I'm saying the 36kW charger is unacceptable. A 150kW charger is the bare minimum that might be acceptable and you're adding about 10% to your travel time for recharging. 350 kW is still about an order of magnitude slower than filling an equivalent sized gas tank, but is probably fast enough.
And of course the fast charging capability is useless if it isn't along the route you need to travel. While we may not need quite as much coverage as gas stations, you definitely need regularly spaced stations along major routes like the interstates. It honestly doesn't even need to be a huge number - 4 stations spaced every hundred miles along the interstate system would only be 1900. It would take 27000 stations to get 1 for every hundred miles of paved road in the US, but that can come later as demand increases.
- chipsa 5y agoUnsurprisingly, 150kW appears to be becoming the standard for 400V architecture. 36kW chargers don't exist. Fast chargers are proliferating along major routes. The only major area that doesn't have regularly spaced fast chargers is the northern plains area (I-90, I-94).