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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think it’s the chargers, but the vehicles. Someone correct me if I’m wrong since I’m only familiar with Tesla, but enroute chargers do tend to be super/fast chargers already, and destination chargers really don’t need to be.

A fast charger is theoretically fast enough but vehicles only use its full power for a short time. each vehicle has a curve of the power it can use, where it’s usually not using the full capacity of the charger. I really think we mostly just need improved vehicles, and they have been improving over time

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was mostly being facetious, I don't think it's any different in Canada. The guy was just wrong about it taking an hour every 2 hours of driving.