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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 19 2020, @06:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the electrifying dept.

Electric car charging stations head to Love's Travel Stops across the US:

[Electrify America] announced Tuesday a new collaborative effort with Love's to install charging stations at its stops across the US. Five locations are already open as of today in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah and Florida. Crucially, the stops now open helped complete a nationwide charging route from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.

The new stations will charge at rates up to 350 kilowatts and can add up to 20 miles of range per minute. Ultimately, Electrify America's goal is to continue chipping away at America's range anxiety about electric cars. With more places to charge, it will be mighty difficult to run out of juice. Of course, the company's also bound to invest the cash as part of a Volkswagen dieselgate settlement here in the US...

Will such partnerships vanquish range anxiety for electric vehicles (EVs)?


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Wednesday August 19 2020, @07:13PM (8 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 19 2020, @07:13PM (#1038987) Journal

    With more places to charge, it will be mighty difficult to run out of juice.

    Granted, the charging network gets better and better, but it's still a lot easier to run out of juice away from any public charging station than to run out of liquid hydrocarbon fuel away from a station providing it publicly from tanks.

    As range gets better and better, electric cars still average less range than gas/diesel vehicles too, for all that.

    I applaud the improvements in the system and look forward to the day it will in fact be difficult to run out of juice, but I question whether that day is today.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @07:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @07:50PM (#1039013)

    I have fuel issues with GAS powered. I carry extra GAS with me. Now, can I buy a trailer with Extra or DOUBLE battery oack on it? Then I am in.

    Also do not want cars - they are "roller skates" for a person of my size. The Suburban was good family - since there was space else where in the vehicle not just behind my seat. Now they have been shrunk - I can not even sit in the back seat - let alone the third row. I am looking for all wheel drive cargo van with windows. Maybe even a fully converted handicap van, since there back seat is move so the wheelchair and extra length in driver seats can fit.

    Get the Flying-J and Pilots in (same company)... Loves not close enough together nor near enough. Pilot is at the end of road just before the freeway.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @06:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @06:31PM (#1039492)

      How tall are you?! Sounds like you need a big-ass Escalade.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:57PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:57PM (#1039066) Journal

    Range may never be as good as an ICE vehicle.

    The current state of EVs is not the end point of their development. It is only the beginning of all of the improvements yet to come. And they will come. Compare today's ICE vehicle to the original Henry T Ford.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:05AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:05AM (#1039207)

      The physics of energy storage and rate of release do not look good right now.

      Maybe that will improve.

      But for now, I am keeping my ice. And will not only vote against any individual politician. But his whole party, if I am threatened.

      I already had to vote Democratic after the Republicans unanimously voted for the DMCA.

      And I had been a " vote the ticket" republican before this. But my own party disowned me and sold out to the corporate whores and did not as much as bring up my concern of abandon ware becoming public domain. Once they got into office, screw you.

      And I know the dimmocrats will too.

      Will someone Please stand up for us common folk?

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 20 2020, @04:57PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 20 2020, @04:57PM (#1039435) Journal

        I'm not suggesting radical improvements. But I expect to see a stream of small improvements.

        Or we could just give up on EVs and believe that cheap fossil fuels will last forever. Not to mention problems of global warming.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:26PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:26PM (#1039525) Homepage
      They've had nearly 200 years to get them right, why are they still so shitty? (193, in case you're asking.)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @11:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @11:44PM (#1039114)

    You can charge off the interplanetary ionic filaments. Seven planets have been here since at least 2011, you can check out how to see them on facebook.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:40AM (#1039267)

    That, and *charging time*. Most charging is to 80% of battery capacity. And most chargers are not 'level 3' chargers.

    In short, driving 200 or 300 miles, then stopping for 4 hours to charge to 50%, isn't 'range'. With ICE, 2 minutes later, I have 100s of miles more range.

    And more battery isn't the answer, because it's already an insane amount of juice that level 3 does. What's next? Level 4, with 3000V, 50A charging?

    It only scales so well!