EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025
EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025
Sometimes, I dream that at least half of the same effort was made for public transport between densely populated areas
I'm a bit skeptical about it really working on large scales during summer holidays. Aren't EV supposed to charge for at least 30 minutes 1 hour minimum to be able to get some autonomy? How is that realistic with such a high number of vehicles?
I'm on vacation with a rented Tesla Y LR in Tuscany right now. We traveled all the way from northern Germany (about 1500 km) and never had any issues finding a free charging station. Just once every single parking spot was used and the charging automatically stopped at 80% in order to make space for others more quickly (and to be honest, this was due to other cars parking in the Tesla reserved parking spots at an Italian supermarket).
Traveling with kids automatically makes you take a break every 3 hours or so. This time, we just let the car charge during these breaks and had a 100% charged car afterwards. That's about 55 min of charging time. In about 25 min you can charge from 20% to 80% using a 250 kW supercharger.
You have to keep in mind that long distance travel is not the usual use case and that being able to slowly charge the vehicle during the night is also important. Most camping sites, hotels and vacation resorts offer at least two 11 kW stations at their own rates.
right now
That's the key phrase. Consider a regular gas station where cars constantly come and go. Now, imagine if in 10 years we'll have a similar demand for EV charging stations. I can't see that working well with the current batteries. Solid-state batteries are not available yet and there's no guarantee that they'll hit the market anytime soon.