Add 10 gallons gasoline into automobile in a few minutes.
In a 10 MPG sports car (1200hp)) that is 100 miles of fuel range
In a 50 MPG hybrid Toyota that's 500 miles of fuel range
Adding the same amount of charge to an electric car battery takes at least 4X longer.
When the average car owner spends 4 hours per year fueling their car at a gas station, the EV owner will spend at least 16 hours fiddling with charging at public L3 charging stations to get the same amount of range, to drive at least 10,500 miles per year.
Maybe a L4 DC 1,000,000 watt or 1 Mega Watt or 1MW public charger can make a 10 minute charge add similar amounts of range to a 100-300kWh battery pack electric vehicle that can take 800 volts.
Consider that 1MW charging stations are not a commercial practical feasible EV charging station yet. The Tesla Supercharges at 350kW are the fastest highest current L3 public charging stations widely available.
Sometimes the L3 much less like the Nissan L3 that peaks at 50kW but throttles down to 9kw or less at the battery approaches full in the LEAF (Leaf starts at $28,895) or ARIYA (Nissan Ariya starts at $43,190)
Tesla Model 3 (MSRP: $40,240 - $53,240) & Model Y (MSRP: $47,740 - $54,490) are the big sellers or the higher volume sales BEV's made in California by Telsa Motors.
Electric Jesus Elon Musk makes bold claims about the 2024 Tesla Cybertruck with claimed 300mi of range, though less if you turn the HVAC on full and or do that while going up & over a mountain pass to go skiing, snowboarding, hiking or climbing, especially if you take 3 other adults & a bunch of gear with you.
There exists no magic bullet to make EV batteries 10x better. Moreover, its iterative improvements with chemical tweaks about every 8 months, and major battery new chemistry breakthroughs every 20 years.
Also, what's possible to do with gold & titanium foil pressurized inside beryllium alloy case satellite batteries that have 20kWh of storage but have to survive oven hot to cryogenic cold operating conditions for 20 years orbiting the Earth in the extremes of lower Earth Orbit; such satellite batteries cost $50k or more, but that makes no difference on a $100 million satellite budget.
In an EV a $50K battery means the resulting car like a Lucid Air or some $100K + Rivian SUV or Electric Hummer / yeah, a few well healed buyers who already have a 240vac L2 charger at home in their 3 car garage micro-mansion in America, they can get the latest greatest BEV & charge it during the day as they work from home on their laptop computers, while their 40kW rooftop solar PV system of PERC N-Type monocrystalline solar panels, robust N-1 micro-inverters, and whole home 100kWh battery backup UPS solutions L2 chargers their latest BEV.
We do not live in a world where everyone can get a Lucid Air. It's not even possible using fossil fuels to make that many EV, let along all the copper, lithium & other materials. We are not industrial enough to make billions of long-range luxury EV's. Our energy technology not abundant enough.
We would need broadly applied nuclear fusion reactors by the thousands to have enough electricity to industrialize more than we have with crude oil-based fuels & giga scale refineries that turn the oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosine, jet fuel, propane, butane & more.
Natural gas compressed or liquified even used to fuel rocket engines along with cryogenic liquid oxygen. Carbon & hydrocarbon fuels have very high energy density that will not be equaled by batteries for many decades or possibly longer.
Think of the amount of building & infrastructure & increasing demand for electricity production that millions of L3 DC fast charging stations would require. A system of EV charging that can supplant gasoline stations, almost unimaginable, not practical, not feasible, probably not even affordable if you leveraged debt spending, and all world military budgets, or even the entire global economy to pay for it.
Pipe dreams of EV only future is exactly that, dreams, not reality, not now, not in 10 years, not in 20 years, I will be very old or dead by the time that gas stations are phased out, I am chronologically 40.15 years old as of writing this now in November of 2023.
You are Not Me / I am vehicle crazy, with more tires that require air pressure Maintenace. I drive 12,000 mi per year to commute & go on road trips. I live in urban sprawl America & waste energy like an American but have been trying EV's and electric vehicle toys for a while now. Nissan LEAF just did not have enough mountain climbing highway speed range to work for me much of the time. I tried 3 different Nissan LEAF, each with larger batteries, 24,30, and 40kWh respectively.
Based on these bad Nissan LEAF low battery range anxiety experiences, I believe and have evidence to suggest that an EV needs at least 100kWh of battery to be feasible to replace a hybrid or gasoline powered vehicle, and moreover if you want road trips, and worst-case winter driving up mountain pass range like a hybrid, the EV needs 400kWh of battery.
My collection of vehicles is crazy & costs a lot to own & operate, maintain, fuel, license & insure.
3 cars, 2 hybrid, 1 premium gas
1 motor scooter, PCX150
1 motorcycle, MT03
1 cool e-bike
2 regular nice bicycles
1 Segway MP OG
1 e-Kick Scooter
1 GX200 Pressure Washer
1 EU2000 Generator
1 Battery Generator
Different PV panels etc
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