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Originally Posted by ssiguy
It is, however, not as plain an analogy as it appears. One full battery recharge can take up to an hour and at a minimum half an hour. Hydrogen cars are fueled in 3 minutes like your car right now. In other words you have to build at LEAST 6 times as many electric stations as you do hydrogen stations to serve the same number of vehicles.
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You're stuck on this because you just don't understand how most people use EVs. If charging is concurrent, charge times are irrelevant. If your car is charging while you sleep, do you care whether it took 5 hrs vs. 7 hrs on your Lvl 2 charger at home? Technically, filling up takes the 1 min that it takes to plugin and unplug the charger from the wall, as far as most are concerned.
On roadtrips, nobody is charging to 100%. The fastest charge rates are till 80%. And all the cars with the 800V architecture will do 5-80% in 20-25 mins. That's usually at least 300 km of nominal range or at least say enough for 2 hrs of driving at traffic speeds in the winter. So for the rare times one takes a roadtrip, drive 2-2.5 hrs, stop for 20-30 mins, drive another 2-2.5 hrs, keep going... And all this assumes batteries don't get better. By they are. 80% of battery could well mean 500 km nominal by the end of the decade, for the average new EV.
The reality is that most people don't roadtrip often enough and far enough for this to matter. They'll be happy just to not have to go to a gas station to fill up. And since they can charge at home, the number of fast chargers needed to replace gas pumps are far fewer.