| ▲ | jjk166 13 hours ago | |||||||
Those mandatory breaks are 45 minutes long. You're not charging 750 kWh in 45 minutes. With a fast charger 750 kWh is 2 to 7 hours. At the far more common level 2 chargers it's 18 hours. Either mandatory breaks need to be substantially longer, you need a substantially larger battery than just that required to go between breaks, or you need some sort of specialized technology for dramatically speeding up charging rates well beyond those for personal EVs, any of which cut hard into the economics. | ||||||||
| ▲ | dgacmu 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Tesla is, in theory, deploying a handful of 1.2MW charger sites: https://electrek.co/2026/02/24/tesla-megacharger-64-location... Assuming some amount of tesla over-hyping there, Tellus is doing 600kW chargers: https://chargedevs.com/features/inside-tellus-powers-600-kw-... So _if_ your route had those, you could charge in somewhere around 1.25h. Not enough for break time, but you can imagine starting with, say, a 1.1MWh battery with one +500kWH boost mid-day being enough to get you to an overnight full recharge. Lots of "ifs" there, since you might not always be able to get full charge rate from the charger, might not time things perfectly, etc., but it doesn't seem completely out of scope for a few years from now. (And who knows, perhaps tesla will come through with those megachargers. Seems more likely than, say, building an autonomous humanoid robot.) | ||||||||
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