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In all those use cases though you are anywhere but your home. So you would be using fast chargers provided in the same way gas stations are. The situation you'
by XorNot 4y ago
In all those use cases though you are anywhere but your home. So you would be using fast chargers provided in the same way gas stations are.
The situation you're describing is "I drive enough to drain my car completely, then take it home to recharge it, then immediately plan to do that again within 30 minutes of going home, and will never stop at a fast charger on that journey which can be completed within the 450km range of my battery".
It's conceivable, but so convoluted that it would never happen.
- imtringued 4y agoIt takes me more than two minutes to fill my car up.
- coderenegade 4y agoThe situation I'm describing is any trip for which the potential of waiting an hour (or more, in many cases) at a fast charger is problematic. My car can be nearly empty in my driveway, and it costs me two minutes to fill it up. This means that if I needed to sprint to the state border before it closed (a real-life scenario for several of my coworkers during COVID), I could. Ditto for any other situation where you might be time pressed. A BEV is charged every time you take it out, but it also needs to be, because charging isn't a two minute thing. Like it or not, this affects its utility relative to a standard vehicle, in certain situations. Maybe it's a 1% kind of thing, but again, I'm not convinced that most of us buy cars for the average use case. If we did, SUVs wouldn't be the highest selling segment of the market.