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Also EV: ~0 minutes because you plugged in at home/hotel last night and get to walk away.

No need to drive to a gas station, pay, and watch something flammable for several minutes. Just plug in and go to sleep. Different technologies simply have different trade offs.

Waiting 45 minutes at a charger is also really inefficient. At 350kW a 100kWh car would fully charging in 17 minutes but unfortunately things really slow down above 80% charge, optimum is closer to 10-50%. This makes longer stops wasteful unless you happen to want to stop for something else.

Optimizing for speed it’s ~10 minute stops and fully charging at night thus skipping multiple fueling stops.




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