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No. You need higher voltage. At 240V, that is 625 to 1050 amps. Even crazy residential supplies are normally 400 amps or less at 240V. Presumably at home you have time and a slower rate is fine (and a hell of a lot easier on the battery).
I disagree. Home charging is the only way EVs work. You won't be able to hyper-charge at home, but level 2 chargers at home won't go away, even if they're only for topping up range/fully charging over a day or two. Once EVs become the only option for a new car, I'm sure the guv will figure out a way to charge us for at-home charging.
Sign me up. I'd go to a full EV for 40k with 300-400km range.
EV road tax will change to pay at sticker time (or when you sell) imo. You report mileage and they will add $0.0x per km to your bill.
They've already started in some US jurisdictions. Not sure it's implemented yet, but they will just charge you $/km on an annual basis as they're not getting their fuel tax. I think California was the first one.
If you park outside, the downside for L1 for me is pre-conditioning will put a hurting on your battery. Jumping into a warm car is a nice EV benefit that ICE vehicles have trouble matching. May still work if you have enough capacity so you don't mind wasting some (like your buddies M3).
Love my pre-conditioning of the car. Nice and toasty before I get in and don't lose any battery power as I do it 10-15min before I even start getting ready. The L2 tops it up again.
Interesting....I'm sure there would be a large pushback against 'privacy', etc etc.
It looks like EV's are charging at ~1C. If you can deal with the heat, 2 or 3C may be possible. There could be a future adaptation where you connect to a coolant loop and electrical connection at the charger so you can blast in power at two or three times current rates and use stationary equipment to dump the heat (eg cooling tower or even chiller depending on space available and desirable pack temperature).
You may be right. I don't think they can increase electricity that much without crippling many people though. I still think it's more likely that it is $/km added for an EV. It would suck for people that drove something like a Volt almost exclusively on gas and the program would likely assume that if you have the ability to plug in, all km's dodged the gas tax.
EVs are already more expansive than comparable ICE cars. It'll just reduce the 'benefit' to nothing more than a feel good, eco-friendly fuzzy feeling.
They should be much lower cost per km. Obviously that depends somewhat on how many km you drive. If you drive very little, amortizing out the increased purchase price drives up the cost per km.
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