Chevrolet exits all ICE production by 2035

RoyJ wrote:

Reisender wrote:
Never thought of that. I always assumed it would be a DC fast charging affair at a depot. More along the lines of an hour or two with a 500 KW or more 800 volt system. Who knows. But your idea may work. A couple of 19.2 KW 240 AC umbilicals overnight. That would deliver around 500 Kw overnight. Tesla used to put 19.2 KW chargers in their model S’s. An 80 amp EVSE (supplying the 19.2 KW) would run about 1000 bucks each. Maybe suspended from above? They are pretty small.

Interesting.

Keeping the heat on overnight wouldn’t use more than about 8 or 10 KW.

For the trucking industry to accept overnight charging, they'd have to do away without team drivers. Fast shipping would need a hub and terminal, where trailers are swapped for a fresh tractor.

But there's no reason why a semi can't charge as fast as a Tesla car. The distribution grid is the only limit. Right now in BC at least, BC Hydro would not run a 138kV transmission line unless it's a major industrial customer (foundry, pulp paper, etc). If every Flying J is fed at that voltage, new substations would be needed.

Yah the electrical calculations are out of my league. Typical V3 Superchargers are 16 station affairs all at 250 KW. Some are bigger and some are smaller. Just had a second one open near us in west Kelowna but it’s a smaller 8 station 250 KW affair. There is another 8 station older V2 150 kw supercharger in downtown Kelowna. I think a lot of the BC Superchargers are 8 station affairs, or at least most that we have been to, although Vancouver seems to have a bunch of those 20 station Superchargers. Those things must suck some power.

Biggest Supercharger we have seen is Kettleman on I5. Something like 46 or something V3 stations. Huge. Lounge, Coffee with a barista etc. Maybe Tesla will set up that kind of thing.

They’ll figure it out.