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Originally Posted by Rathji
You gotta wonder, what kind of person would be ok with taking 30 mins to fuel their car?
I guess if there was a restaurant, or mall nearby. Stop for lunch and get a free tank of juice.
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It's a start.
People are environmentalists if it doesn't inconvenience them much.
This new development can go about 300 km and would be about 35 minutes to refuel (pulling over, hooking up, then the half hour charge, unhooking, taking off).
An electric car that can go 550-600 km without refueling and needs only 10-15 minutes to refuel (pulling over, hooking up, pulling out) is the ultimate technological goal, the equivalency of a fossil fuel car.
There's a lot of game-changing questions in this and huge economic turmoil that will have to be thought through.
Looking ahead, you would wonder if all charging stations would be proprietary or, for more efficiencies, they'd licence the technology to other electric automakers so that anyone could pull into a charging station instead of having to search for one from their brand.
If integrated oil companies were smart, they'd be starting to look at how their going to be integrating this charging technology into their normal filling station networks, as one example.
It looks like this technology is about halfway there to becoming convenient enough to make us all environmentalists.
Cowperson