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You need bigger transmission lines to fast charge. That's expensive. You need to charge enough at the site to justify the line costs.
by fwungy 4y ago
You need bigger transmission lines to fast charge. That's expensive. You need to charge enough at the site to justify the line costs.
- sarmasamosarma 4y ago[dead]
- crote 4y agoAlternatively, use cheap local storage to "build up" energy for a fast charge.
- fwungy 4y agoThere is no cheap way to store large amounts of electricity. EVs are great when in used in the right applications, but trying to make them work for everyone and everything is just going to tarnish the platform.
- dahfizz 4y agoIt takes $100 of batteries to store 15 cents of electricity. What kind of cheap storage are you envisioning?
- crote 4y agoYou could look into cheaper batteries, as there is no need to use the latest and greatest technology. Supercapacitors might also be an option. It's all an economic sum, really: when do the higher connection fees and increased demand pricing outweigh battery cost? We are already seeing grid-scale battery storage being used in practice, applying that to a more local use case might not be that unrealistic. Besides, if the alternative is no charging station, you can probably charge significantly higher fees.
- fwungy 4y agoA battery is a box of minerals. It can never cost less than the commodity value of those minerals. More battery = more minerals. Iron law of batteries.