With EV Range Becoming Less Of An Issue The Holy Grail Is Now 10 Minute Charging

Electric cars developed by General Motors may be able to recharge their batteries with 180 miles of driving range in less than 10 minutes, a quicker juicing up than drivers can get at Tesla Inc.'s superchargers.

GM and one of its research partners, Delta Americas, are developing the fast-charge system as part of a three-year project. GM has said it's readying 20 electric vehicles for sale by 2023 that will be capable of rapid charging.

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Truthy - 8/31/2018 11:32:23 AM

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American ingenuity!

TomM - 8/31/2018 6:03:19 PM

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THe real question is not 10 minute charging - it is 10 minute FULL charging - range at least 200 miles. Even then - an ICE car can fill up for 400-500 miles in less than that. We are still far away from this happening. WE still do not have enough Electric capacity to charge all these cars - as recently noted when a section of Manhattan was told to cut back on usage or be completely cut off.

SanJoseDriver - 8/31/2018 8:53:50 PM

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I think we'll see 150 miles in 10 minutes by the end of next year. Honestly, that's probably good enough, it's a different paradigm. You can't gas up a car at home or leave it to be filled up and go shopping or to a restaurant. Even for people with no garages, at some point during the week you are likely going to a grocery store, bank, restaurant, etc. If you plug in a 300 mile+ EV while running errands, that will likely be all 99% of people need for a week. I know this isn't the case in most of the country, but in Silicon Valley almost every office building now has a charger, many of them unmetered.

As for grid capacity, this could easily be solved with grid storage which many utilities are starting to implement. We really need this for 2 reasons:

1.) Extra capacity when generation is low during peak times (you're NYC example)
2.) To absorb excess solar. In CA there were a couple days during the summer when too more solar was generated and utilities literally had to dump juice (cost of electricity on the utility energy market went negative). As solar continues to become more popular, the batteries will help stabilize the grid from potential over-generation.