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Imagine you are told that you have to spend the night in the middle of nowhere on your weekend trip mere 600 kilometers from home. Just to charge the battery.
by mynegation 13y ago
Imagine you are told that you have to spend the night in the middle of nowhere on your weekend trip mere 600 kilometers from home. Just to charge the battery.
- tlb 13y agoTesla supercharger stations charge the batteries in an hour.
- CamperBob2 13y agoThose are a gimmick. Completely non-scalable. Imagine the lines at gas stations if it took an hour to fill up. The thing I keep coming back to is this: as we transition to EVs, we have a once-in-a-century chance to do it right. Look how badly we screwed ourselves during most of the twentieth century when gasoline-powered cars started to become popular. Lead in gasoline. No emissions or crash-safety regulations. Transportation planning driven by politics rather than logic. We need to be a little smarter this time around. That means not allowing the market to evolve in a manner that leads to 20 different manufacturers selling us vehicles with hardwired proprietary batteries that we charge by plugging them into the same outlets that charge our electric toothbrushes. It's frustrating that nobody seems to understand how dumb that is.