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I wonder myself, if countries are already having infrastructure problems, especially in summer, where also Air conditioning systems are active at full blast (I speak now from an EU perspective), how can these MW Chargers be able to handle the load?

During winter, without using carbon fossil generated energy, it's pretty unrealistic, isn't?

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If you think from the angle that BYD’s first target customers are Chinese people, and how China has been adding an incredibly amount of infrastructure YoY, it makes a bit more sense. Completely different playing field.

Summer is more or less a solved problem - we cover southern Europe with solar panels, then add transmission lines to shunt the excess north.

Every car park, every commercial building... they've even started installing them to shade the highway medians. Plenty of barren desert to build out solar too. And if that's not enough, we can juice North African economies by building connectors down to the Sahara

Does not really matter, if you charge 10 cars at 100kw or 1 car at 1MW. The amount of miles you add to your transportation system is the same.

I don't believe it's the same. What about charging multiple cars at 1MW though?

Under the assumption that electric cars will drive the same amount and the efficiency is the same and any car charges at a random time and there is a big enough numbers of car, then charging faster will not increase the load on the net. In reality this will drastically decrease the number of charging station needed, as they will be freed faster.

I'm not sure why this is downvoted - this is actually a valid point. If your average charging station handles 24 cars an hour, it does not matter from a power consumption perspective if it does so by having 12 chargers and everyone waiting half an hour or 2 charges with everyone waiting 5 minutes (but the UX will be drastically improved).

The only effect will probably be increased EV adoption, but that's something we generally want and need to prepare for anyway.

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