Graphite anode inventor says he can charge electric car in 10 mins
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I would totally be able to manage the tradeoffs (charging time, autonomy…) since I’d have another vehicle. But I have the feeling that years to come (5-10) are going to be game changing and that the car I would buy today could lose its resale value rapidly.
So like any other car after 5 years?
People somehow got used to Tesla’s maintaining their value mainly because they didn’t really changed the design much so it’s hard to tell which year it is and that they were and somewhat still are supply limited.
Maybe it's a judgment error from me but I'd say more. There is this popular belief (which tends to be proven wrong with time) that batteries lose a lot of capacity with time.
As for Tesla, it's a edge case since Tesla as a "luxury" branding. I'm thinking about other manufacturers since I don't want to put this much on a "second" car.
In France we have a pretty successful EV car named Renault Zoé, I think I'll to start with this one, it have Ok specs and can be found used under 10k€.
At your price it may make sense as a "car to commute".
https://occasion.renault.fr/vehicules.html?pvTtc=4000-10000%...
So fewer people buy new cars and they keep the longer hence the higher prices in the 2nd hand market. Also I don’t know if it’s still the case but Poland used to import 2nd hand cars from Western Europe so if that practice is still going on there is likely still a reseller premium on 2nd hand cars.
This will change soon in my opinion. New laws in EU pumping up norms that cars have to meet are pumping prices as well. Demand for new cars is rising, you wait several months for a car even if you don't desire custom spec. More and more people just don't want to deal with "used premium cars as the same price as shitty new ones". Prices went really up. This pumped up used cars prices as well. I see a trend in which a 1-3 year old cars are a bit more expensive then new ones in car shop, but... available.
I'm still wondering if this will end up in something at least a bit positive. It would be nice to have significant new cars sales - we would be finally treated as a market that means something and is worth caring for.
Here I fixed the title to make physics work.
10 minutes
80*(60/10)=480kW
Not gonna happen.
The Kia EV6 which is pretty much on the market already supports 350kW charging with 800v DC chargers… they demonstrated 70% charge in only 18min with a production car and a production charger.
So I don’t see why 480kw would be unrealistic especially with a new cathode technology.
Whether this one works or not I don’t know but the 480kW isn’t some limit that can’t be broken because we are already reaching it with existing batteries.
https://insideevs.com/news/509506/tesla-semi-megacharger-fri...
Likely to be installed soon, so 480W definitely isn’t out of the question.
A long row of rapid charging electric cars can give a smelting plant run for its money