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Won’t charge times be like sub 10 minutes with the upcoming 1000V power capabilities? Though what would be really clutch about battery swapping is that the ove
by dcow 3y ago
Won’t charge times be like sub 10 minutes with the upcoming 1000V power capabilities?
Though what would be really clutch about battery swapping is that the overhead of battery maintenance could be offloaded from the owner and amortized into the price of a swap. I imagine there would have to be a battery standard so that cells could be serviced at an individual level on the swap provider’s end during maintenance.
- kccqzy 3y agoNo. Not until we get to solid state batteries. There already are 800V batteries from multiple brands (Porsche, Hyundai, Kia to list a few) yet charge times have remained near 20 minutes.
- Schiendelman 3y agoMost supercharger stops are less than 10 minutes anyway. Very few people are ever charging their battery at a supercharger from 5% to 80%. They’re putting a little bit more in so that they make it all the way home.
- dcow 3y agoNot on a road trip. You primarily charge from 10 to 80% at like 250kw and it takes 15-20 min.
- Schiendelman 3y agoI said most for a reason. Road trips are waaaay less than 1% of driving. And as more and more hotels add L2 Tesla charging, more Tesla owners can charge overnight away from home. If I do trips to Oregon from Seattle, I never supercharge anymore.
- dcow 3y agoI never supercharge unless I’m on a road trip and neither do the other Tesla owners I know. We all have wall chargers. So Supercharger use is 100% road trip for my cohort. I also doubt road trips are less than 1% of driven miles. Road trips are at least 30% of my odometer.
- numpad0 3y agoCharging for Li-ion is not power, but rate limited, to 15 minutes at minimum. 4C or "4 times as its Ah rating" is considered fastest possible speed within reasonable degradation. Up-rating only allows larger battery packs to charge closer to that speed.