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Germany to take a page from the Biden playbook:
US auto manufacturers join hands, circle wagons:
The announcement is short on details, but this is what we have. Look at what is buried in the last paragraph! Yup, Tesla wins again.
There are currently just under 8,700 direct-current fast-charging stations in the U.S. and Canada with nearly 36,000 charging plugs, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Fast chargers can get a battery to 80% of its capacity in 20 minutes to one hour, making them optimal for travel corridors and in some cases comparable to a gasoline fill-up. {LOL -- comparable to five minutes for full refueling an ICE[
They’re much quicker than 240-volt “Level 2” chargers that can take hours to get a battery to a full charge.
The new network is expected to have 10 to 20 charging plugs per station, meaning there would be a minimum of 1,500 stations and a maximum of about 3,000. [Compare the footprint required for 20 charging plugs with multiple cars in line, pulling in every three to five minutes.]
Tesla’s network, with the largest number of fast chargers in North America, has 2,050 stations and more than 22,000 plugs in the U.S. and Canada, the DOE says.
Most interesting: The network formed by the seven automakers would be public and open to all electric vehicle owners. It will have connectors for both Tesla’s North American Charging Standard plugs as well as the Combined Charging System plugs used by other automakers.
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