Motor Mouth: The (fantastical) numbers behind an all-electric future

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The (fantastical) numbers behind an all-electric future — via drivingdotca EV

As EV proponents are fond of pointing out, the EV charging stations of the future may not have to deal with quite that volume of traffic, their contention being that more EVs leave home with a full charge than gas cars with a full tank. That said, the discrepancy is not nearly as broad as protagonists claim. For one thing it ignores the typical Canadian motorist’s ferocious preoccupation with pump prices.

Nonetheless, let’s imagine the battery charging advancements of the next decade or so. Let’s assume — and, believe me, this is not a given — we can achieve a 10-minute charging time in the foreseeable future . Factoring in the two minutes to process Visa as well as buckle up, our mythological fast-charging ONroute would need at least 24 super-high-powered charging points.Article content

How super-high-powered, you ask? Well, one of the idiosyncrasies of EV recharging is that, unlike filling up a gas tank — which happens at a constant rate — EVs charge at their peak capacity but a small fraction of the time they are plugged in.

Of course, there are also five more ONroute stations between Toronto and the Quebec border — plus one more equivalent giant roadside stop on the Quebec side before hitting Montreal — that were all serving our Labour Day rush. How many were as overwhelmed as the one I visited is impossible to tell, but it beggars belief that mine was the only one feeling a surplus of traffic.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

 

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