Jason_Batemans_Hair t1_is2iuzo wrote on October 12, 2022 at 8:48 PM

Reply to comment by perrochon in A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today by Wagamaga

100 kWh in 10 minutes would mean 600 kW supply per charger.

A standard house service provides 24 kW, so each charger would have to supply equivalent power to 25 houses. Let's assume a charging lot has 10 chargers - that's 250 houses equivalent in one small location (6 MW), corresponding to one 'gas' station.

Where are you seeing this commonly existing? Do you have a link to a map of these?

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I see you edited your comment without answering my question. Oh well. A little searching seems to show the Tesla V3 charging locations have 8 stalls at 250 kW each, or 2 MW per location - and even these don't exist in most of the country. Sorry for trying to help.

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The largest sedan battery pack Tesla currently offers is 100 kWh, so I sized for that.

The issue here isn't so much about kWh, but kW. Charge rate, i.e. time spent charging on a trip, seems to be a commonly cited operational obstacle causing so many to keep buying ICE vehicles. People don't want to have to charge for an hour or more every 200-300 miles.

perrochon t1_is2wgz3 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 10:19 PM

https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/firebaughsupercharger

Has 56 stalls. Middle of nowhere.

Harris Ranch may go to almost 100.

Baker, CA has CCS right next to it.

Every new supercharger has been V3 for a while. V4 is coming out soon.

We don't need those in residential areas where people charge at home and slowly. It's not like the residential gas station that people feel up now for their weekly driving. We need those a long major traffic routes. Maybe in some areas with lots of apartments.

Most new houses in the US had 200 amps at 240V for years. That is some 40 kilowatts.

You have to look for industrial sized electricity. Not residential. This is an industrial hookup.

Jason_Batemans_Hair t1_is325c8 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:00 PM

Anyone looking at the map of Tesla chargers can see that my comment represented the situation fairly, whereas you found 1 oddball charging site in the entire United States and present that as if it's relevant - and it's still just 250 kW chargers anyway. That's intellectually dishonest IMO.

You have a strange agenda, to be arguing with people who would like to see more electrification. There's no good reason for you to be misrepresenting the state of affairs.

Deafcat22 t1_is338kz wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:09 PM

You might be confusing combined theoretical peak loads with working demand loads in the real world.

Actual electric cars don't have 100 kWh packs, for starters. Most people are fine with half of that, 50kWh.

Also, very few people go to fast chargers with a 0% battery state. Most people also don't leave the fast charger with 100% battery state. In practice, it's more common to assume most drivers will charge 50% of the battery capacity, which for the sake of argument let's say is 25kWh.

Finally, the actual fast charge rate is proportionate to how close to empty the battery pack is.. a Tesla at 25% SOC topping up to 75% SOC might only start the charge at 100-150kW, tapering down below 50kW.

Yes, a very busy supercharging station in a dense city needs a fair bit of power (and may "peak shave" actual grid demand with on-site battery storage). For most cities however, it's actually not a huge load in practice, and easily implemented (which is why so many cities around the world have already installed them, even cities below 300,000 population like mine).