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Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:44PM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:44PM (#1039056) Journal

    Another consideration for the EV vs. the ICE for a long trip is the Teslas are getting closer to self-driving. It will make for a more pleasant journey to be able to enjoy the scenery, read a book, or snooze. In that scenario a little extra time for recharging passes quickly.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @10:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @10:18PM (#1039073)

    There is no reason that self-driving must or will be restricted to EVs. It happens that Tesla is ahead of other manufacturers right now, but I wouldn't expect that to be permanent.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @01:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @01:07AM (#1039151)

    Self driving is orthogonal to the powerplant driving the car forward.

    An ICE vehicle can be just as much, if not more, self driving than an EV.

    So "self driving" isn't a benefit nor a curse of an EV or an ICE. Eventually the remaining ICE vehicles will gain self driving abilities as well.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday August 20 2020, @09:29PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday August 20 2020, @09:29PM (#1039543)

    "How you doing? You getting tired of driving, want to take a break?"
    "Woof!"