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tw04today at 2:13 AM1 replyview on HN

It definitely does not take an hour if you have an 800v car and an 800v EA station.

Can’t speak highly enough about lucid, but their current offerings are definitely not for the budget conscious, but that should change soon.


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wolrahtoday at 4:18 AM

I have as far as I'm aware the cheapest 800v car on sale in the US (Hyundai Ioniq 5) and in the right weather conditions a 20-80% charge is legitimately 10 minutes.

The weather conditions do unfortunately matter. Travelling during the post-Christmas blizzard last year was very much less than ideal. The battery heaters in my car could not keep up with how bitterly cold and windy it was and I had multiple 30-45 minute charging sessions because it wasn't ever warm enough to accept more than ~120kW.

I'm looking forward to traveling with it in the warm season and seeing how things compare.

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