Re: Elephant in the room
It is often conveniently omitted how long it takes to charge such car.
The average electric vehicle has a range of 180-350miles.
The average weekly mileage of UK vehicles is ~190miles. The average journey is ~8miles.
The 99th percentile will trickle charge their EVs at home off a 3kW or 7.5kW wall socket, possibly overnight on an Economy-7 plan. It will be a rare thing for them to dip below 75% capacity.
For that one time a year where you go on a long trip, you can rapid charge in 30-45minutes, which is actually fine, because 200miles is 2.5-3 hours driving. As a matter of best practice this is often considered the maximum stretch one should drive before taking a break.
Moreover, a 30-45minute rapid charge would give you a full charge, giving you another 200+miles of range. In reality this is unlikely to be necessary.
Most people who need "more than 200miles" actually need 250miles of range, so assuming they haven't just bought a car with a "long range" battery pack which will do 300miles, a quick top-up mid-journey is more than sufficient and then you can destination charge wherever you're going - do 150miles, stretch your legs and top-up for 15minutes, then complete the trip. You might drive away without 100% charge, but that's because you don't need 100% charge.
There will be someone along in due course saying they have a pressing need to do 500-700miles/day, which of course means they're either exceeding the driving hours in the Working Time Directive (which admittedly only applies to HGV and Passenger Carrying Vehicles, not to high-mileage reps who drive a lot but are not employed as drivers. Arguably it should apply to anyone driving for work) or they're breaking the speed limit.
Neither is a very good look, nor a use case which manufacturers care about. Those sorts of duty cycles are bad for people's health and should be phased out. They used to be outright impossible because older cars/roads simply didn't allow it. Businesses should structure themselves to minimise travel.
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