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Let's not forget plugging it in on rainy days!
Charging an electric vehicle takes too damn long, Tesla fanbois wet panties
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When I was a kid you could buy a beater for 50 to 100 bucks. Does that mean anything to today's car prices?
The average car is about 8000 bucks cheaper than the average EV. That is off-kilter because Teslas and some fancy one bend the scale. These are 28 to small 30s.https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/cheapest-electric-cars/
When you consider charging time, it is the difference between pumping gas and recharging. You have to pump it yourself and spend time waiting for it to fill up. If you go to the bathroom or pick up a coffee. you are there quite a while. The difference is minuscule. You also can get gas on your hands and clothes.
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Is that so?
There is no charging stations anywhere close to my favorite eating establishments. And I don't have an extension cord that long. Beside a level 3 charge is not a full charge and it can take longer in cold weather. Most Level 3 chargers provide an 80% charge in 30 minutes. Cold weather can lengthen the time required to charge.
So what? Do you need every single charger to do it is the exact same time? Why. They are much faster. The difference between a gas fill-up and a charge is only 20 minutes assuming you do not go inside or go to the bathroom. You are whining about essentially nothing.
So you say.
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Will charging electric cars ever be as fast as pumping gas?
Charging EVs is slow.
While drivers today are accustomed to filling their gas tank in less than five minutes, EVs, depending on the size and specifications of the battery, typically take at least 30 minutes to get 80 percent charged at the fastest charging stations out there.
The batteries inside today’s EVs are composed of thousands of lithium-ion cells with the ability to store and release energy thousands of times. Each of those cells consists of two electrodes—a metal cathode and a graphite anode—separated by a liquid electrolyte. While the battery is charging, lithium ions flow through the liquid from the cathode to the anode, filling up spaces between the graphite layers like wooden blocks fitting into a Jenga tower.
The speed at which lithium ions move from the cathode into the anode dictates how quickly the battery charges. But just as placing blocks in a Jenga tower hastily can cause the structure to become unstable, if lithium is forced into the anode too fast, problems start to arise.
At high charging speeds lithium batteries can overheat, causing them to degrade over time. More problematically, lithium can start to build up on the surface of the anode instead of entering it, a phenomenon known as lithium plating. Not only can that drastically reduce the battery’s capacity, the lithium deposits eventually form filament-like structures known as dendrites. Once they start forming, those dendrites can grow across the electrolyte, touch the cathode and create a short circuit, causing the battery to catch fire or explode.
“Obviously that’s not particularly good from a safety point of view,” says Peter Slater, a professor of materials chemistry at the University of Birmingham.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...-electric-cars-ever-be-as-fast-as-pumping-gas
Solid state batteries solve some of these issues but the larger issue is lithium. There is only so much.
The Anonymous
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And it still takes too damn long to charge an EV.
yup
lotta things that sap battery charge and not always in predictable ways.
another thing I've been wondering about is the massive informatiopn screen in Teslas at least. If cel phones are distracting that thing is much moreso.
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Joe Capitalist
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Charge overnight in your garage like I do, moron. Geez, you're too dumb to drive an EV so please don't buy one.
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Lots of Americans live in apartments and even more need to drive more than 300 miles away from home.
It really does not. If you need a full charge, you plug it in and go on with life. You wake up with 300 miles of charge. When do you have to recharge when driving? If you drive 300 miles a day, then electric is not for you. that is about zero people who drive that much.
My Volt has an ICE too. When I use up my charge, the car slips seamlessly into ICE. Then I have a full tank of gas to use. I rarely use it however the car computer will sometimes change to ICE because it finds the gas has been sitting in the tank too long and may go bad.
The Volt had the highest customer satisfaction rating of American cars.
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Joe Capitalist
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Lots of Americans live in apartments and even more need to drive more than 300 miles away from home.
Then they shouldn't buy EVs, moron. Geez, Tesla sold a million cars last year. Every car manufacturer is making EVs now. Your Anti-EV propaganda isn't working, moron.