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Old September 11th 19, 01:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 04:14:34PM -0000, Recliner wrote:

The future for other than residential trickle charging top-ups is likely to
be fast chargers at filling stations. They will, of course, need a high
power grid connection, but that's simpler than rewiring the entire local
electricity supply grid, or setting up a whole hydrogen supply chain.

The new Taycan (and, no, Roland, it's not aimed at you) represents the
current state of the art:
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/taycan/charging-18558.html


22 minutes is *way* too slow for filling stations. But it's getting
there. We need less than an order of magnitude improvement.

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