"I rented an electric car for a 4-day road trip. I spent more time charging it than I did sleeping."

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[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is the way until batteries get better or they start installing wireless charging under the highways.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Switching to lithium batteries means a dependence on China for energy. I feel like I see a microcosm in my vape batteries. They only take so many charges, their performance constantly decreases, they take forever to charge. And with China still locked down, getting them at all seems iffy.

I feel like maybe we need to look closer at who wanted this energy policy and who received money from China. McCarthy style.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US Army is developing or has developed a large solid state battery.

[–]TheJoint 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If they had the infrastructure this wouldn't be a problem.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's just one of the problems. What are they gonna do when the battery doesn't charge anymore and Shanghai is closed?

I can't even get vape batteries and fools wanna run their cars on this shitty china tech.

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That would be like having a regular car with a gas station that takes 8hrs to fill the tank lol. They will have to force up the price of gas to where no one can afford it before people will consider battery powered cars. The trouble with that is, all the working class people will be ths first to be unable to afford gas and the last to be able to afford battery powered cars.

[–]noshore4me 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If your driving radius on a single charge is just over 300 miles, perhaps attempting to go 500 miles per day isn't the best course of action with a charging infrastructure in its infancy.