But, it doesn’t change much, really. Folks need to move on from charge rate fetish or go deeper.
My >5 year old Tesla does 250kW, this says 1000kW But - you dont actually charge 4x faster at 1 MW. Nor do you want to. 250kW doesn’t charge 2.5 faster than 100kW either, in my experience. This is because this is the limit, not the average. And the averages are slower for many reasons. Including you dont want to slam energy into your very expensive battery that much faster than you take it out, it will wear it out.
And you know what? 100kW is good enough to charge over a meal or store visit. Packs are usually less than 100 kWh, and sessions are <<100%. And plugging in longer at level 2 / 11kW is better for the battery and grid if you’re in no hurry.
I don’t have a Tesla, because fuck fascism, but I have to agree. My EV is charged at home 99.9% of the time. It holds enough to get me through the day and back home. After I’m home, I really could not care how long it takes to charge, as long as it’s enough for the next day. And it always has been. Maybe if I was part of an outlier user, driving for a living or something, the charge speed would matter.
My Renault Zoe tops out at 50kW and I need to take two 30 minute breaks to go from Munich to Jesolo in Veneto if I leave on a full battery.
Breaks I should be taking anyways.
If we had slow chargers all over the parking places would change a lot. So we could charge cars overnight for cheap.
