So they want to restrict everyone's movement? No longer can you just travel around Europe by car. There are some good Top gear episodes showing the issues with recharging.
In before all the Tesla/EV apologist team downvotes this truth into oblivion.
In before all the Tesla/EV apologist team downvotes this truth into oblivion.
Edit: not sure about the downvotes, anybody care to explain? Did Tesla build superchargers in random 10-20000-inhabitant towns far from highways?
Peak usage also means that uncommon cases are going to be a problem. For long trips I am not sure that the supercharger networks can scale.
When travelling for vacation, for example, planning multiple 30-60 minutes stops at the supercharger station might not be feasible (and the fastest charging only fills the battery by about half of the capacity, so that means more stops) and there's also going to be a problem with waiting times without massive infrastructure improvements. Right now a typical highway gas station has at least 5 pumps and it serves one customer in 3-5 minutes. That is roughly 60000 km-vehicle per hour. To reach a similar capacity, a supercharger station would need (at 30 minutes per 300 km and 150 kW per station) about 15 MW of power and its own high-voltage transformer.
Yet this capacity would be needed only when everybody moves for spring break or summer vacation, and it would be vastly more expensive than a gas station. Is it feasible to have such a thing every 50 km of highway or so?
So if it's cheapest from 6 PM to 6 AM they will start charging (absent any control from the utility) at 6 PM approximately.
I am interested (genuinely :-)) in standards for grid to appliance communication and on which countries have those discounted rates. Would I lose the discount if my commute is longer (so I need a continuous supply throughout most of the night)? Are they tied to specific wires coming in the building?
Also did anybody run the numbers on the power that would be needed by a supercharger network comparable to current highway gas stations?
It's worth pointing out that Tesla lost that case. Then Tesla appealed and lost in the appeal court as well.
Yes, explicitly so, but that’s a completely different story and has nothing to do with what fuel new cars will use in ten years time.
The UK Conservative government as currently run by Boris Johnson? Well, yes, of course they do! It's hardly a secret. They literally boasted that they'd got rid of Freedom of Movement as their first achievement of Brexit (under Theresa May at the time).
It was all over the news. How did you miss it?