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4fterd4rktoday at 2:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

Probably useful for trucks, marginal utility for your typical EV owner. Articles like this seem to be speaking to people who don't own an EV and are still focused on the ICE car model of "plugging in" your car periodically at a public location. That isn't how EVs work for the vast majority of people.


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ZeroGravitastoday at 2:53 PM

This is their first model that will be rolled out in the EU and the US so they might be more likely to see faster charging EVs including some that would peak at nearly twice that speed.

JumpCrisscrosstoday at 3:18 PM

Probably also useful for taxi and ridesharing fleets in cities.

NetMageSCWtoday at 2:18 PM

Why do EVangalists constantly think people don’t take road trips in cars, when the vast majority do?

Reducing 20 - 30 minute stops to 10 - 15 minutes is very worthwhile for road trips, and makes shorter range vehicles usable for those trips.

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