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Old 07-19-2021, 09:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
Rajge is currently adequate for most purposes. Charging needs to get faster. If it takes you <10 minutes to fully recharge from numerous places on a trip, you're at gasoline capabilities. 10 minutes is a rest stop visit for me.
It's all about watts/hour. You can only put so many amps through a wire so you have to keep increasing the volts. It starts to get to be dangerous. No way you can recharge the even bigger batteries on 480 volt superchargers even faster than they do now. So if you want 5 times the current speed on a battery twice as big as a current battery, you start talking about Joe Blow snapping together a cable that has more like 4800 volts. Then lined up like a gas station 10 "pumps" so a 48000 volt feed, just for the equivalent of one average corner station. It's like adding a steel refinery to every neighborhood.
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