This is a new kind of propaganda. Most of that is reasonable except 15 minutes is not “close to an hour” to charge.
Your hour might apply to one model that’s more than a decade old. It has never taken a Tesla that long to charge, and it doesn’t take that long for any other modern model to charge.
It isn’t propaganda. The site I mentioned that showed me the price said 41 minutes charging. Maybe “close to an hour” is an exaggeration and I apologise if you read it as anti-EV propaganda. Read my comments, I’m actually kinda pro-EV here. The thing is, I don’t own one. I’m cautiously optimistic about the future, and that’s the truth as best I can tell it.
I will grant you I’ve heard of faster charging. I was just going off of what I read. Which IIRC was covering a newer electric vehicle — the new Subaru?
I guess you’re right. My Hyundai just charges faster than most.
Also contributing to the experience is that I pretty much never need to charge 10 to 80%. I haven’t taken it on a 7+ hour drive yet where I’d need that. For 5 hours I can generally just stop for ten minutes and that’s enough. So these 30 minute stops sound weird to me.
I think it’s newer EVs charge faster. Fast charging was originally a premium feature in smartphones. Then they all did it. Then it came out that iPhones (and some Android phones) charged faster with an iPad (better) charger. Then year after year they got faster and faster.
Faster charging can degrade batteries faster, but also newer batteries guard against it better.
The newer the battery/charging tech, the better things are.
This is a new kind of propaganda. Most of that is reasonable except 15 minutes is not “close to an hour” to charge.
Your hour might apply to one model that’s more than a decade old. It has never taken a Tesla that long to charge, and it doesn’t take that long for any other modern model to charge.
It isn’t propaganda. The site I mentioned that showed me the price said 41 minutes charging. Maybe “close to an hour” is an exaggeration and I apologise if you read it as anti-EV propaganda. Read my comments, I’m actually kinda pro-EV here. The thing is, I don’t own one. I’m cautiously optimistic about the future, and that’s the truth as best I can tell it.
I will grant you I’ve heard of faster charging. I was just going off of what I read. Which IIRC was covering a newer electric vehicle — the new Subaru?
I guess you’re right. My Hyundai just charges faster than most.
Also contributing to the experience is that I pretty much never need to charge 10 to 80%. I haven’t taken it on a 7+ hour drive yet where I’d need that. For 5 hours I can generally just stop for ten minutes and that’s enough. So these 30 minute stops sound weird to me.
I think it’s newer EVs charge faster. Fast charging was originally a premium feature in smartphones. Then they all did it. Then it came out that iPhones (and some Android phones) charged faster with an iPad (better) charger. Then year after year they got faster and faster.
Faster charging can degrade batteries faster, but also newer batteries guard against it better.
The newer the battery/charging tech, the better things are.