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Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging (scitechdaily.com)

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Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging::Typically, it takes around 10 hours to charge an electric vehicle. Even with fast-charging techniques, you're still looking at a minimum of 30 minutes – and that's if there's an open spot at a charging station. If electric vehicles could charge as swiftly as we refill traditional gas vehicles, it wo

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 53 points 1 year ago (39 children)

What a bullshit article. While better anode materials are always nice, these claims about charging speed are just dumb. That's only so much power you can push into a battery and today's 350 KW chargers are probably already the practical limit. And if you can't take a 20 minute break every 400 km or so, you should go home and rethink your life.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That's literally the law in many countries - commercial drivers (who are the kinds of people who would be driving those kinds of distances) have to take a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. Because it's unsafe to not do so.

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