ORRadtech
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2 minutes might be a slight exaggeration. Possibly it's 4 minutes TOTAL. The Fiesta's range is well over 300 miles on a 12.4 gallon tank of gas, but time to put 10 gallons in the tank to fill completely up is not long. And the card takes a few seconds to read. You must go to a place with older equipment or something.
The time to charge a $70K Model S is 97 hours at normal house 110 voltage, 12 hours at 220 volts with a special setup required, and 1.33 hours at a very dangerous 440 volts.
Not competitive at all.
And 50% charge in 20 minutes is crazy. No way am I going to sit around for 20 minutes waiting for a HALF of a charge. Not when I can fill COMPLETELY up in such a short time with a gas powered vehicle. And don't rapid and partial charges shorten your battery life?
I'm not sure w,hy you think 440v would be very dangerous? It would be no different than being killed by a pick-up VS a dump truck, you'll still be dead.
In the US it would be extravagantly expensive to do in a private residence but no more dangerous than the current 220v. If it were wouldn't we be hearing a hue and cry from Europe to move to a lower residential voltage? Don't they currently use 230v for lighting and 400v for heavy appliances?
In the US the infrastructure is not in place for 440v to residential customers. It would require the replacement of your service transformer- or adding an additional one - to bring 440v inside. But no real additional risk.
On the rest of your points I agree.
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