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extra88 | 21 days ago

Chargers at grocery stores and other places of public accommodation that have lots of parking and customers who stay a while are good options. I don't know how many are enough; even fast chargers take orders of magnitude longer to use than a gas pump.

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loeg|21 days ago

I don't think 2x slower is plural "orders of magnitude" no matter how you count it. It's at best a single power of two.

extra88|20 days ago

Filling the gas tank of of a sedan takes like 2 minutes, doing the equivalent charging is going to take a lot more than 4 minutes.

"Orders" may be an exaggeration but one order of magnitude isn't.

toomuchtodo|21 days ago

If your grocery shopping takes longer than 20 minutes, fast charging will suffice. This is my experience with 250kw fast chargers.

throwaway894345|21 days ago

At least in the midwest very few grocery stores have fast charging. Usually the fast chargers are along highways on the outskirts of cities, and even then they’re almost always at gas stations.