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Is it, though?

Modern luxury EVs have a range of close to 500km, and they are able to charge at over 1000km of range per hour. Split that 6-hour leg into two 3-hour legs with a 15-minute charging session & pee break, and you can easily do that.

Besides, why optimize for the absolute best experience on your once-a-year trip? What about the _other_ 300+ days of the year? How much time are you going to save by plugging your car into a charger when you get home once or twice a week, instead of going to a petrol station to fill it up?



Sounds good, but it's not reality, at least not for now. What you're describing is the absolute best scenarios - most expensive cars and MW charging stations. These I can't afford and the charging stations don't exist or are very rare (at least here in Europe).

If it would be true, that'd be great.

For me saving time on the gas station is negligible. I drive around anyway, but yes, I agree with you - charging at home is very cool. Just plug it in when you get home and you can drive in the morning.

The only way I see this, have 2 cars. One for longer trips (diesel), one for shorter, every day usage (electric). But this needs 2 parking spaces, insurance, taxes etc. I can't affor this either.


150kW is roughly 1000km/h charge rate. There are tons of such stations around Europe.

Even budget EVs have such charge rate and do 300km on a highway.

Most charging stops I do I can't even leave my car to grab lunch because I'd have to be running back to unplug the charger.


I randomly picked one charging station. Here are the reviews:

> The charging station was not working, even though it says that it works. Thanks to that, we had to use slower chargers and wait for our rental EV to charge for quite a while.

> Non of the 4 chargers worked.


So the problem isn't the car.


Yes, this is not affordable. Just the one EV works fine.




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