It would just be nice if people could sometimes respect the fact that some of us have other priorities and preferences!
This goes both ways. You barged into a thread for new battery tech, humblebragging about your financial means and how easy it is to refuel an ICE car.
What are you doing here in this thread if it has nothing to do with your priorities and preferences? Are you trying to explain to everybody here how easy it is to fill up an ICE car, because i’m very certain we all have stood at the pump before?
You know what would be nice? If people who have no interest in EVs would stop derailing EV threads. Then the “respect” issue wouldn’t pop up in the first place. I do enjoy our “arguments”, but on this one you’re just dead wrong. By now the people who don’t mind or prefer EVs know who isn’t into it. No need to announce it in every EV thread.
I firmly believe in the next few years we will be in the same position with massive improvement in cheap readily available batteries that charge quickly and will give 400-500 miles on a charge.
Don’t let me burst your bubble, but that’s not going to happen. Even if, and that’s a big if, battery tech improves, chargers don’t. First, this particular battery tech here isn’t very scalable (capacitors), second, even if we get to solid state batteries (which is what’s actually gonna advance range) – there’s nothing out there that can charge it. In fact, a Porsche Taycan (i think the Ionic 5 too) are already 800V systems and can charge at 270+kW. There’s 400 chargers available that can do that kind of power. In the entirety of europe. The current charging infrastructure would need to be replaced entirely, because they max out mostly at 55ish kWh – and 800V chargers need to be actively watercooled, too.
Maybe in the next two decades, sure. But absolutely not in the next few years. We can’t even fill our supermarket shelves properly, to argue that there will be a network of individually watercooled 1200V chargers readily available for all the new battery tech that doesn’t exist yet within the next few years.. is rather optimistic.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.