DC fast charging is fairly fast. My car goes from 10-80 in less than 20 minutes in summer, and probably 35 minutes in winter. My wife spends more time than that in grocery stores weekly.
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WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe issue is charging takes a while, while refuelling is pretty much instantaneous
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DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
4 times longer refueling is crazy that’s only 80 percent versus 100 % refueling.
paf0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The point is that you’re already parking your car for that much time while you’re doing other things. They just need to put more charging stations near those things.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
4 times longer refueling is crazy that’s only 80 percent versus 100 % refueling.
Imagine instead every week having to make a special trip with your vehicle to a designated location where you have to interact with a point-of-sale that is trying to upsell you car washing services or loyalty program enrollment with a good chance of skimmers installed on credit card readers.
You then have to dispense gallons of fluid of highly flammable liquid which you, in the week ahead, will turn into carbon dioxide that will slowly alter the climate of your planet to the point that hundreds of species of plants and wildlife die off.
On the financial side, the price of the liquid is so variable that it can change multiple times a day based on market demands and world events. Your country may go to war to ensure you getting that liquid. There will be deaths of your countryman to make sure you get that liquid.
Instead, I pull the car into the garage and plug a cable in. When I get in the car the next day, its full. So yes, one of these sounds crazy, but not the one you say it is.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Your privilege is showing. I live in an apartment so I would have to make a separate trip and sit around for 40 minutes to fill the car up 80%…
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Even if we’re talking road trips, after 4 hours of driving (often much less), you’re going to want to get out, stretch, pee, and get a bite to eat. All stuff that easily takes 20 minutes.
4 hours at 70mph is 280 miles. Add 20% for not charging all the way (which is faster and is easier on the battery). Add another 20% for cold weather. That gets us to about 400 miles, which is a bit higher than most EVs on the market right now are hitting. That number is only going up in the next few years.
EVs past 400 mile range only serve a small section of the population that likes to pee in a bottle and eat sandwiches prepared ahead of time so they can go 7 hours at once. Most ICE cars don’t have that kind of range. We don’t need to wait around just to serve this handful of people.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
True! I’m more at the 2 to 3 hours get out and stretch kinda point in my life. The amount of chargers and the fact that I can’t do it at my apartment is still a deal breaker.
vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 11 months ago
The idea is that you charge when you go somewhere with a parking lot where you are staying for more than a few minutes. Almost everyone whose primary mode of transportation parks somewhere and then spends 30+ minutes inside, whether that be restaurants, grocery stores, work, or somewhere else. In that time I get get 200 miles of range, which is far more than I actually use most weeks.
TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, you also have to account for the fact that you’re not supposed to completely charge (or discharge) a Li-Ion battery pack. 80% is effectively full (if you care about cell longevity)
Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Barring about this one minor annoyance, EV’s are great!”
ratman150@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I either charge at home, or at work, or if there happens to be a charger at my destination but I’m almost never waiting to charge.
I’ve frequently had to wait for a pump or had to go out of my way to get to a working pump. Gas pumps don’t work when the power goes out but batteries stay charged. I’ve actually had to load up my gas generator in my ev to drive 2 towns over during a power outage to get fuel…to keep my pets alive. Car only had about 30% charge to start and roughly 22% when I was back. Generator had 0 gas to start (had just run through my old gas) and was full when I got back…also the power decided to come back on which began refueling my ev.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The goal is, to set them up so people aren’t necessarily waiting.
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I don’t care how long it takes to charge at home: just like my phone I plug in overnight and it’s fully charged in the morning
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all the grocery stores and restaurants and workplaces that have chargers are all pretty slow but you’re going to be there for a while anyway, plus they only need to recover the charge used to get there
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on road trips, my stop is well under an hour but a supercharger can give back a good percentage of charge in that time
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100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 11 months ago
That’s why NIU’ system with swappable batteries is a great idea, even though it makes engineering more difficult
Lobotomie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
90% of people can charge their car enough in between Shopping trips
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People that live in the city don’t usually go shopping with their cars (at least here in central Euripe) and people in the countryside will have enough space for a charger anyways.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People do everything in their cars in the U.S.
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, and not being Amercian is a crime on the internet, I know.