[Martinjlm]

More electric vehicle news. I’m pretty sure that I mentioned somewhere in this thread that the major oil companies are now getting into the charging station business. I may have also mentioned that Shell’s network can claim the single biggest charging location in the world. I know I mentioned that lately, new BP stations going up in my area (Detroit Metro) are being built with charging stations. Well, there’s more news from BP…Another example of major corporations seeing the writing on the wall.

Now BP is spending $100M to install Tesla 250kW chargers at some of those stations. So who’s gonna sit at a BP station for 4 hours waiting for their car to charge? NOBODY. Because at 250 kW, most Teslas will charge from 20% SOC to 80% SOC in 25 - 40 minutes, depending on battery size. For my car that would take me from about a 65 mile range to a 260 mile range in about 25 minutes. Seeing as how I MIGHT do that 10 or fewer times over the course of a year, not a problem. Right now I wake up with 260 miles range every morning. We only charge to 80%.