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xbartoday at 12:33 AM0 repliesview on HN

They are in a completely different league when you account for the other full half of the story you missed:

"The company claims 5C supercharging capability, with a 10% to 80% charge completing in about 11 minutes."

Assume your worst case of 350 miles, 80% of that is 280 miles. Getting to 280 miles of no-exaggeration-real-world range in 11 minutes is actually game changing.

An 11 minute break after each chunk of 280 real miles of continuous driving does not feel like an interruption on a road-trip. 33 minutes every 200 miles definitely does.

11 minutes once per week to cover 5 days of 30 real miles of each-way commute is a forgettable amount of time.

The time/mile charge ratio is actually the story.