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

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.

  • fluckx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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

    • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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