Topic: Going GreenI've put 50,000 miles on my electric car, around half of them on long distance road trips. But when people ask, "Don't those take a long time to charge?" my response is that I've spent less time waiting to charge than I used to spend filling up with gasoline. You just have to know how to do it right, and you need right charging infrastructure. That latter factor is why I have to say "almost," because this is not always true in these early days of EV adoption, but it will be true almost all the time as the EV transition continues. Here's my guide to zero-wait charging and how you can do it, too.
I also have a video about a recent road trip demonstrating the zero-wait principle.
Zero Wait
Many people have heard it can take 30 to 60 minutes to refill an EV at a fast charger. They may have done a double take when they read the specs on charging an EV from a regular household plug and it said it would take over 2 days. That seems completely unworkable, and it would be, if that's what you did.
The reality is that most cars are parked more than 22 hours every day. As long as there's charging—even fairly slow charging—where you park, then charging takes no time since it happens while your car is just sitting there. Ove
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