Typically, it takes around 10 hours to charge an electric vehicle. Even with fast-charging techniques, you're still looking at a minimum of 30 minutes – and that's if there's an open spot at a charging station. If electric vehicles could charge as swiftly as we refill traditional gas vehicles, it wo

Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging::Typically, it takes around 10 hours to charge an electric vehicle. Even with fast-charging techniques, you’re still looking at a minimum of 30 minutes – and that’s if there’s an open spot at a charging station. If electric vehicles could charge as swiftly as we refill traditional gas vehicles, it wo

  • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Really though, if you’re reaching the end of your battery capacity with a lot of EVs out there today, you’ve probably been driving for about 3-4 hours or so, if not longer, the general recommendations I’ve seen are you should really stop and get a 15 minute break about every 2 hours to stretch your legs, prevent fatigue, increase alertness, etc.so that’s pretty much in line with the recommendations. I know that’s pretty much the rhythm I and most other people I’ve ridden with tend to fall into on road trips without even trying. And very often despite my best efforts, rest stops tend to end up lasting around a half hour anyway because of checkout or bathroom lines, or one of my travel companions taking their time ordering food or getting distracted somewhere.

    I get that some people can just power through much longer drives, and I’ve occasionally done it, but honestly it’s probably for the best if people are made to stop every couple hours and hit the reset button on their brains, a lot of people are shitty enough drivers when they’re fresh and well-rested, let alone after theyve been screaming down the interstate at 70mph for hours, and their brain is getting fatigued.

    • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      1 year ago

      It’s double the recommendation in a best case scenario. It’s 4x as long a wait if you have to get in a queue.

      I’ve never had a rest stop that takes more than 10 minutes and that’s if I have my toddler and wife.

      If you want to stay forcing some drive time limits on people go ahead and try. But saying YOU get tired so everyone else must only be able to handle 2 hours at a time is insane. I’d be far far more tired showing up to my destination after an extra hour or two off driving and probably getting dark at that time.

      • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I call BS. I have given diaper changes to my kids on the road that take more than 10 minutes. I won’t even mention lunch breaks, dinner breaks mid morning snack breaks, pooping breaks etc.

        • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Diaper changes are a 45 second affair, 3 minutes if its a mess, and we’re past that personally. We’re in and out for toilets and have our own food packed. I commonly don’t need to use the rest room and the wife will take care of everything while I hang out at the pump and pick her up. 5 minutes.

          Not everyone lolygags around

        • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          how about you recognize that your use case is very much in the minority and covered by alternative solutions like Hydrogenation powered cars?

          sure you might want a car with 1000 km range and you can get that along with semi-trucks you can hop on the Hydrogen platform , but statistics show that the vast majority of driving people do is well within the ranges of current BEVs, so why make all cars carry around all that extra weight, the expensive batteries when the vast majority of it won’t ever be used?

            • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              snake oil regenerative braking

              da fuck.

              i shouldnt be needing a separate car to access remote areas, or always have to be anxious about range. minority ? hmm, well not everyone lives in the G7 countries, so we dont have a supercharger in each 100km radius. probably there are 5 or 6 V1 tesla chargers in 150k km² surface area where i am now

              How often do you go to these remote areas? how many of these areas are out of reach from you on a full charge?

              i would gladly pay an extra 10k$ to have double the battery size

              except there is more cost to a double battery size than just money, look up how the metals are mined for these batteries.

              hydrogen is costly:

              Doesn’t matter, it’s gonna be used for semi-trucks anyway, it can be manufactured anywhere and solar energy is abundant so is water, much more abundant than what we use for the batteries we have at the moment.

              you also have to start to factor in road wear if you start doubling battery capacity.

                • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  by road wear I mean that if you start adding more and more weight it will significantly increase infrastructure costs of keeping the roads maintained

                  not a concrete answer

                  it’s a fitting response to your non-conrete statement about regen braking.

                  not much but, but people

                  Oh so it’s not even you are arguing for, it’s these mystical other people.

                  an electric 4WD, not a cybertruck gimmick.

                  okay, what the fuck does a non-product like cybertruck has to do with anything?

                  i meant by remote that there no supercharger in 400km radius in sight

                  Are there people like that? I am from Slovakia which doesn’t have a great infrastructure and I don’t believe there are even people like that here.

                  • that’s an infrastructure issue, gas stations exists, they can add superchargers, it’s a complete non-argument.

                  their efficieny drops alot when they are at temps way beyond 26°c

                  what the fuck does desert has to do with anything?

                  u would need to cover whole Russias worth of land to produce sizeable amounts of hydrogen

                  no you dont…