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Daily at-home charging is needed only for plug-in hybrids. BEVs can easily do a week of city driving without needing to charge. In my city supermarkets have ch

• netsharc 3y ago
  I wonder if the next invention will be a "powerbank" for cars... rather than those dumb e-scooters littering the sidewalks, how about a giant battery on 4 wheels you can leave next to your car to charge it? When it's close to depletion, just like the e-scooters, a van can come around and take them to a hub to be charged. Or I suppose a car driver can put them in the trunk and return to that hub, in case they're driving that direction anyway (plus, they can collect another one to place in their neighborhood). Sadly it'll probably need protection against people whose denial of the climate crisis involve violence and vandalism.
  • pornel 3y ago
    Charging is so close to being solved, that I don't think we need any new boondoggle. Just build more infrastructure and modern batteries. For road trips, Nio has 10-minute battery swapping stations, but modern 800V BEVs can be recharged in 20 minutes. City use is an even easier case, because most cars will spend hours parked somewhere. If not at home, then in a parking garage at work. There are street-side chargers too. In many cases you don't even need a fast charger.