EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025::The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      There are chargers now that provide 20km of range for every 60 seconds your car is plugged in.

      So if you stretch your legs, get a bite to eat, go to the toilet, etc you’ve added enough range to give your car another five hours of range.

      And if those chargers are every 60km along the highway… then you’ll be able to stop when it’s convenient for you. That’s an opportunity to stop every 30 minutes.

      But the reality is most people will charger their EV while they’re at home or at work. And therefore it will just always be full, you will only ever need to stop on long road trips. Realistically, how many times a year do you go on a road trip? Once? Twice? Not at all?

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      2 years ago

      A Tesla can supercharge from 10 to 90 in about 30 minutes if you tell it to pre-heat the battery while* driving. If you’re going 120 on the highway I’m assuming you should get ~400-500 out of it ( depending on how heavily you’re loaded and how much that impacts your aerodynamics ).

      I can’t say for non-tesla cars as I’ve not driven one before.

      When charging an EV it seems the last 10% takes longer than the first 90. The more throughput the car cam take the faster it will charge. Unfortunately there’s car companies ( like Skoda ) who sell higher charge throughputs separately. I think teslas model 3 can take around 150kw?

      I’m not sure on the exact terms( like kw ). I always get them mixed up. Sorry if it doesn’t make sense

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        Yeah, the charging curve is very tilted. From 0-20%, a Tesla will do 250+ kW, so that only takes a couple of minutes. Then the power slowly tapers off, so your typical motorway charging session will be from 6 % to 70 %, and take around 22 minutes.

        Such a charging session will typically yield another 2-2.5 hours of driving at 120 km/h, depending on model and conditions.

        I highly recommend abetterrouteplanner if you want to play around with very accurate travel planning for almost any EV on the market.

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          AFAIK it’s usually pretty fast up to about 80%. It’s only slow when the battery voltage is close to the maximum.