Upcoming EV battery promises 250 miles of range in 10 minutes

[toooooot]

1) on ALL first world countries, the electric companies (= stock holders) have huge margins, at the cost of slowly upgrading the infrastructure (among many other things)

2) if you wait that the infrastructure is updated before you start with EVs, than you'll wait another 50 years. The fast adoption of the EVs demands a faster update which is easy in big cities

3) if they adopt more renewable energy produced locally, the need for an update of the infrastructure is low.

The thing is: is far easier to justify doing nothing than doing something.

If there is an urgent need in having much more power in a short period of time, I would imagine someone would have to pay for upgrades. What would it cost, x2 electric bill for most of us? Maybe more. I hear Europeans pay crazy much for electricity. I do not want to pay more for something I might not use in another 10 20 years. I would prefer they made plans, clearly defined what upgrades will cost and above all who will pay. I would guess a lot of people disagree if they knew they bills would go up significantly.

 

[rmcrys]

If there is an urgent need in having much more power in a short period of time, I would imagine someone would have to pay for upgrades. What would it cost, x2 electric bill for most of us? Maybe more. I hear Europeans pay crazy much for electricity. I do not want to pay more for something I might not use in another 10 20 years. I would prefer they made plans, clearly defined what upgrades will cost and above all who will pay. I would guess a lot of people disagree if they knew they bills would go up significantly.

Our (Europeans) bills are already extremely high for decades now: we pay an extra tax so that electricity companies make the change to renewable energy. The thing is, we pay a tax so that they change and now they make us still pay the tax AND expensive energy. One could say "oh the poor electricity companies" but hey, they have record profits year after year. It's the same with banks, during the pandemic they added extra fees because the business was slow, afterwards the kept the fee and had record numbers, but no-one cares.

 

[passwordistaco]

Our (Europeans) bills are already extremely high for decades now: we pay an extra tax so that electricity companies make the change to renewable energy. The thing is, we pay a tax so that they change and now they make us still pay the tax AND expensive energy. One could say "oh the poor electricity companies" but hey, they have record profits year after year. It's the same with banks, during the pandemic they added extra fees because the business was slow, afterwards the kept the fee and had record numbers, but no-one cares.

It's almost as if that money were going into somebody's pocket instead of into the power grid.

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

I know that they've been pointed out for years and that they're not designed for home usage, but the fact that this is regarding a substantially faster charging makes a big difference: the sustained load to quickly charge so much power in such a short window of time requires additional infrastructure plans on top of considering most cars going electric since quick charging requires a lot more power transformers and prepared stations and substations to handle the crazy high loads over a short period of time.

This is why you have fuse boxes on your home and most of your devices have trip protection included but imagine that it's not just tripping a huge current for a tiny moment but having to deal with it for a full 10 minutes per car x 4-8 cars per station then that times however big your city is.

Quick charging isn't for daily use. Doing that frequently is probably going to damage the battery. It's for those times when you need to go a long distance. Most EV owners will charge their EVs overnight or during their work shift the majority of the time, and use the quick charger to visit Aunt Polly on the other side of the state at Thanksgiving.

 

[rmcrys]

Quick charging isn't for daily use. Doing that frequently is probably going to damage the battery. It's for those times when you need to go a long distance. Most EV owners will charge their EVs overnight or during their work shift the majority of the time, and use the quick charger to visit Aunt Polly on the other side of the state at Thanksgiving.

Exactly, I charge my EV with the mobile charger that came with it at 3 kW (so... very slow) and since I arrive home and leave again (roughly 12-13 hours), it means I charge around 36 kWh (half of the battery per night) which is plenty (I need just around 12 - 16 kWh/day ). Then at 150 - 250 kW on tesla if I'm making a big trip