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Originally Posted by oneclickplus
My son just visited from Michigan with his electric vehicle. Plugging in at 120V reported 4+ days to an 80% charge. That's just ridiculous. We had to take it to the "Electrify America" commercial charger where he was able to get it up to 80% in about 30 minutes; this is called a level 3 charger. Four problems with this:
1) Not everyone is willing to wait 30 minutes to "fill the tank" when they can do it now in about 3 minutes.
2) The charging location is not convenient (not anywhere near "home").
3) The charge (pun intended) was $0.43/kw. For those unfamiliar, go check your electric bill for the rate you pay. It's no where near 43 cents.
4) Level 3 charging (very fast) is detrimental to the life span of the batteries. So, while you can do this, you can't do it every day without serious damage to the batteries.
Electric vehicles will NEVER replace gas /diesel vehicles. There isn't enough infrastructure. There isn't enough lithium in the world to make even a tiny fraction of the batteries that would be required. This is a wet pipe dream by the (self-censored so as not to create a "political" post).
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Funny that nobody ever talks about the cost to charge a battery. Obviously it should be part of the equation.