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What will it take to charge electric vehicles faster? (range anxiety) - C C - May 25, 2023

The establishment pushing back propaganda wise against "range anxiety" exemplifies how reality-impaired it is, since its representation of the world is constructed purely from abstract input: descriptive accounts, formal generalizations, and metric data. That and its rigid confinement to agenda.

People directly experiencing and participating in this aspect of immediate (real) environment have legitimate concerns: I'm ready to trade in my electric car. Here's why (scivillage thread). Exceptions are citizens of tiny countries and island nations with an area of 2,000 square kilometers or less. EVs may be suitable for them, even with associated changer availability problems and slow rates.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-will-it-take-to-charge-electric-vehicles-faster-180982221/

INTRO: Electric vehicles are quieter, easier to repair and maintain, and far better for the environment than traditional internal combustion cars. Still, numbers of EVs on the road are trailing behind the cars they’re supposed to replace, in part due to charging times.

While refueling a gas tank only takes a few minutes, charging an EV takes a lot longer. Right now, the fastest chargers available to consumers, sometimes called Level 3 chargers, can charge a vehicle battery to 80 percent in as quickly as 20 minutes. But the most available (and affordable) chargers are far slower. Level 2 chargers take several hours to charge a vehicle, and Level 1 chargers—which plug into a typical home outlet—can take more than two days.

These slow charging speeds have only exacerbated “range anxiety”—the concern that batteries could run out of charge on the road. More than 50 percent of 500 EV owners who participated in a 2022 OnePoll survey commissioned by Forbes Wheels said they frequently or always have this concern. While Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has pushed back on the idea that drivers should be so worried about range, it remains a major hurdle for prospective EV buyers. That, and the fact that demand for EVs outpaces the ability of car manufacturers to make them, threatens to slow down the road to electrification... (MORE - details)


RE: What will it take to charge electric vehicles faster? (range anxiety) - Magical Realist - May 27, 2023

Quote:While refueling a gas tank only takes a few minutes, charging an EV takes a lot longer. Right now, the fastest chargers available to consumers, sometimes called Level 3 chargers, can charge a vehicle battery to 80 percent in as quickly as 20 minutes. But the most available (and affordable) chargers are far slower. Level 2 chargers take several hours to charge a vehicle, and Level 1 chargers—which plug into a typical home outlet—can take more than two days.

That's a major drawback for drivers. They're gonna have to shorten that time considerably, as well as install more chargers, before I'm won over.


RE: What will it take to charge electric vehicles faster? (range anxiety) - Magical Realist - Jun 9, 2023

They say batteries of EV's should be replaced every 10 years and can run as high as $20,000.
I'm hanging on to my gas vehicle for as long as possible. Not looking to invest more money in my travel needs.