Long journeys are the only thing putting us off going electric. We make regular trips from the Northwest to Cornwall 5/6 times a year, around 370 miles each way. Maybe this range will be available and affordable in another 3 or 5 years.
I can relate, but there’s something to consider. I don’t know your particular train of thought, ours was that if we do “long journeys”, we’d need to stop somewhere for 90 minutes or so and that’d be awful.
That’s not realistic though. In your example, lets say 400 miles, you only charge once for less than 30 minutes in an average modern EV. In the ID3 Tour (long range model) you’d only charge for around 10 minutes. You arrive at your destination and charge there, assuming of course there’s the option for it somehow.
400 miles range in an EV won’t happen within a decade, especially not an affordable one. Batteries are heavy, the more you pack in a car, the heavier it gets – the less mileage you get out of it. Diminishing returns, so without a leap in battery technology (solid state etc), the range might go up a few dozen miles, but not up to 400. I don’t think that’s realistic.
Generally, what is more realistic is that charging speed goes up, so instead of 10 minutes of charge for 100ish miles range (ID3 Tour), you only charge 5 minutes (or 10 minutes for 200 miles). It’s cheaper to increase charging speed than to build state of the art, new tech batteries.
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