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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:15PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:15PM (#1039521) Journal

    I drive from Ontario to California in 4 days. Yes, 4 days.

    Respectable.

    About the only way that EV is going to compete with gas OR diesel engines, is if they do battery swaps. Pull up to a changing station, your low/dead batteries come out one side, and the fresh batteries are pushed in the other side. That's probably still 1/4 hour operation, not a three to five minute "fill up".

    Of course, swapping batteries is likely to result in picking up a dud battery somewhere, that just won't take a good charge due to age.

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