'about' is doing some serious work there. Maybe it's on par with the entire time spent at the gas station, but I'd say "under two minutes" is a better estimate of the actual transfer.
My main goal is to fill up and get going, but perhaps other people are different.
When I fill up in my local area I do it at the supermarket (which all have a petrol station attached where I am), so it's more that the shopping has a petrol re-fuel attached. Another time (pre-covid) I would fill up is on the commute. But the office had some charging points there.
No you don't. ??? Why do you have to attend to it? Just use the trigger latch and let it fill.
I mean you can't really just walk away anyway, because there's usually other people who want to fill up, but that would apply equally to electric.
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The main reason you don't see them as often in N/W-Europe and they are even explicitly forbidden by law in some though there are exceptions. In NL for example, in which case all methods to latch them are forbidden like putting a filler plug in the hole.
5 minute charging would be a game changer. That means urban dwellers could use EVs the same as gas engine cars and that road trips look exactly the same as they do now (presumably gas stations would add EV stations with enough market penetration). This cable isn't the big issue in making that happen, but it's needed. Battery chemistry and power distribution become factors at that point, but we're on the way to solving those issues too
This might sound trivial but when you've spent 50 hours over the course of two weeks in the car with kids I assure you it is not.
But I bet the equivalent of a big two-tank truck will need significantly more than 5 minutes.
You are not towing livestock or machinery with an F150 typically, or with any practicality. Just in the vicinity where I live, looking out my door, F350 is a common choice, with King Ranch being the preferred trim line due to its towing capacity.
Perhaps the solution for EV chargers is a special fuel that burns with oxygen and releases electricity. And it shouldn't have C in it, only H, N and O. I guess, its also allowed to use rare earth catalyzers.
So with a gas pump your looking at more like 7-8MW equivalent. Even then EV's are more efficient at spending the energy with regenerative braking and no idle losses etc. which is why you 100+MPGe. So your probably closer to 3-4MW to get equivalent charge times as filling a normal car gas tank at like 2-3 minutes for similar range.
HPCVC charging spec is being worked on for 3 megawatts but its really targeted for charging large vehicles like Semi's but I would imagine that would trickle down to normal cars at some point if the issues of charging a battery that fast can be worked out.
Surely there are “trucker pumps” in the US as well and 18-wheelers don’t have to fill at 10 gal?
IIRC in Europe standard flow is 40L/mn (about the same as the US’ 10 gal) but high-flow pumps can to up to 200 or so (50 gal / mn).