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Originally Posted by RWebb View Post

can charge at up to 250 kW if you can find an 800-volt charging point
You won't find ANY right now, and probably not for a long while either. Tesla just (like last month) opened their first 250kW charger but obviously that is only for Tesla's

The biggest problem for EV's is the grid being able to handle chargers that are big enough to charge cars in the time it takes to fill up with gas. Current "fast" chargers are already causing problems...hook 4 of those 250kW chargers together and you potentially have 1 MW of random peaking? No freaking way with the current infrastructure, and demand charges alone would render them a financial dumpster fire.

There is a lot of work to do, way beyond the automobile tech needed, to get EV's where they need to be.
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