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Sounds good, but it's not reality, at least not for now. What you're describing is the absolute best scenarios - most expensive cars and MW charging stations. These I can't afford and the charging stations don't exist or are very rare (at least here in Europe).

If it would be true, that'd be great.

For me saving time on the gas station is negligible. I drive around anyway, but yes, I agree with you - charging at home is very cool. Just plug it in when you get home and you can drive in the morning.

The only way I see this, have 2 cars. One for longer trips (diesel), one for shorter, every day usage (electric). But this needs 2 parking spaces, insurance, taxes etc. I can't affor this either.



150kW is roughly 1000km/h charge rate. There are tons of such stations around Europe.

Even budget EVs have such charge rate and do 300km on a highway.

Most charging stops I do I can't even leave my car to grab lunch because I'd have to be running back to unplug the charger.


I randomly picked one charging station. Here are the reviews:

> The charging station was not working, even though it says that it works. Thanks to that, we had to use slower chargers and wait for our rental EV to charge for quite a while.

> Non of the 4 chargers worked.


So the problem isn't the car.


Yes, this is not affordable. Just the one EV works fine.




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