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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
there will be no sustainable management of such, if even 5% of cars switched to electric use, electricity rates would go sky high, and so would coal combustion.
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The least efficient coal power plants these days are more efficient and cleaner than even the most fuel efficient gasoline engines.
Certainly, electrification of vehicles would require more power infrastructure, but the fact that most people would charge their vehicles at night when power demand is much lower would ease most of that. Mostly, electric cars would just balance out load demand.
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Originally Posted by cowperson
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.
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The Tesla Model S is capable of that (~500km per charge , 5 minute "refuel") - it has 5 minute battery swap capability. However the infrastructure isn't there yet to actually go anywhere. It'll come though.
Battery swapping removes fears of an expensive full battery replacement at some point in the car's life as well.