You seem to have last looked at EVs in 2015. At 350kW, it takes about 7 minutes to charge.
Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The problem is that what you actually do a roadtrip, (and you’re not charging at home on a normal “commute” day) is sit on your ass and do absolutely nothing for 45 to 90 minutes at a gas station in the middle of fucking nowhere, hoping no hick “jeds” see you hanging out at the Tesla charger and approach you to tell you that “yuu got a perddy mouf”.
SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
7 MINUTES?! 7 minutes. To full. FROM EMPTY?!* 7. minutes.*
I don’t believe you. The last video I saw about road tripping with an EV was last year- this one.
SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Unfortunately that’s a Tesla ad. But I was wrong. Looks like at least some of the 350kW charging cars take about 18 minutes. Slower than getting gas, but not much worse than a pee and sandwich break every two hours or so.
ebc@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Not to full, you never charge to full on a fast charger… You charge enough to continue with your trip, which, yes, takes about 10-15 minutes in my real-world experience. I’ve also timed my fueling stops in my gas car, and they also take at least 10 minutes if I have to pee, grab some coffee, etc.
Reygle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
So I’m not at all opposed to electric cars, but I’m on the old side and what I’m not “for” is spending time charging enough, planning my next charging stop, rather than “filling up” and “there’s one on any exit, whenever I see fuel is low again”.
Maybe it will reach that point some day, but if I want to go sightseeing or go to somewhere interesting, I don’t want the whole trip being highly stressfull stops of “OK where do we plan to stop next and for how long”.
At that point I’d much rather take a train, and yes I know how insulting that is considering it would be AmTrak here in the united states of late stage capitalism.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A lot of EVs are currently advertising charge times of 30 minutes from 15% to 90%. Furthermore:
If theres a line for the charging station, everybody is gonna take 30 minutes, so you could realize you have a 2 hour wait.
If the battery is hot, it can take longer. If you just got off the highway, it could add another 15-30 minutes while the battery cools off.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
You don’t charge EVs from 0 to 100% on roadtrips. It is inefficient.
Charging from 20% to 80% only takes 15-30 min.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Or just… rent a car?
If an EV supports all of my travel/commuting needs except one or two road trips per year, I’d rather just spend $65/day renting an ICE. The idea that you need to solve every problem with one privately-owned vehicle is part of why there’s so many idiots using F-150s for daily commutes.
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s not unreasonable but I’m in a mood today so Get the heck out of here with your REASONABLE ARGUMENTS! :)