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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. I know cross country road trips isn’t the norm for most, but at the moment, it burns an hour (at least on my car) to recharge if you need to during the middle of a trip that out-distances your car’s range. A quick battery swap would solve that and give you the same ease/downtime as filling up at a gas station. I’d think some people have a hard time swallowing having to wait an hour to fill up if they’re trying to get somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

10-80% charge time is in the range of 20 minutes. EVs already exist that will get you 4 hours of driving on that. Yes, even in the cold.

This isn't as big a problem in practice as it's made out to be.