• areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well duh the vehicle and battery doesn’t exist yet, so of course their aren’t any chargers! The charging standards will have to be developed concurrently with the vehicle and deployed slowly over years.

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      1 year ago

      Most countries in the world’s entire electrical grid wouldn’t be able to handle a full ev-ification of the nation’s cars as is- let alone replacing every single one of those cars with chargers that suck enough energy to charge 3~ of the normal modern ev’s range (250mi~) in 10 minutes (2x faster than the fastest modern evs) at once.

      It would be taking a problem we already don’t have infrastructure to solve yet- and tripling it.

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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t increase the total amount of energy needed vs regular evs. It might lead to higher power drain at certain popular charging times though. It also gives us the technology to help with that in the form of better energy storage. It sounds like they have improved energy density of batteries considerably to fit that range into an EV. That’s something we will need in the energy grid going forward.

        It’s also possible to restrict charging rate during peak times to reduce load on the grid. There are other tricks that are possible as well including using connected vehicles not in use as additional energy storage for the grid.

        If you can get enough electricity for EVs in the first place then this technology would actually be helpful overall I think.