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The advancements in battery tech are obviously great news but I still have no idea how you’d power a “traditional” charging station (with several terminals) for EVs.
There’s plenty of time to find a solution to that before today’s experimental battery tech becomes ubiquitous in cars but power generation and infrastructure seems like it’ll be the bottleneck. I haven’t done the math or anything but it just seems like 5m charging of more than one or two cars at once would strain the grid that exists today.
Energy density needs to increase for sure, but I see a point where cars charge fast enough that there will be less need to increase it further. I imagine it'll look a lot like gas stations today, where they stop for a few minutes and leave again.
Most vehicles should be charging slowly at home anyways.