EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025
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The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025::The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.

  • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, the charging curve is very tilted. From 0-20%, a Tesla will do 250+ kW, so that only takes a couple of minutes. Then the power slowly tapers off, so your typical motorway charging session will be from 6 % to 70 %, and take around 22 minutes.

    Such a charging session will typically yield another 2-2.5 hours of driving at 120 km/h, depending on model and conditions.

    I highly recommend abetterrouteplanner if you want to play around with very accurate travel planning for almost any EV on the market.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      AFAIK it’s usually pretty fast up to about 80%. It’s only slow when the battery voltage is close to the maximum.