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by bufferoverflow 443 days ago
That requires 1 megawatt chargers. For each charger.

Not saying it's impossible, but that won't be easy.
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michaelt 443 days ago
The US consumes 376 million gallons of gas per day. Which is equivalent to a continuous power draw of 500 gigawatts.

Megawatt chargers? We'll need the generation capacity to support 500,000 of them.

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bufferoverflow 442 days ago
What does whole country consumption have to do with building megawatt chargers?

The problem isn't trivial. If you have, say, 10 charging spots on a lot, each requiring a megawatt, how are you going to deliver that? Are you going to build a whole substation for every charging parking lot?

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