- Now next I want to talk about
something I'm a little confused by.
I'm excited, but I'm also very skeptical.
And, this is that Porsche and BMW unveil
this new EV charger that's three times
faster than Teslas's.
Of course, that's what everything is based upon.
But the thing about it is that it has a
450 kilowatt rate, which is the speed at which it charges.
Which is, yeah, I don't know, triple or so
what Tesla's currently at with a 120 charger.
120 kilowatt charger.
But the deal is that while that's
incredibly fast and I think you know
that's great to see charging happen
at a faster rate, cars can't really handle this yet.
No car really out on the road will be able to
accept this fast of a charge.
And, the challenge with that is that it
goes back to what Elon and J.D. were talking about
on the earnings call where you can, you know,
you could have a one megawatt charger,
but the battery won't last as long
because of the changes in the chemistry or the design
in order to be able to accept that charge.
So, it's a question, I think there's a trade-off here.
It's not just pump more electricity in at faster rate.
There has to be something with the battery
to be able to then accept that and maintain that charge.
So, I'm not sure what the future looks like,
but Tesla is reported to be coming out
with the news super-charger V3 system
which will be, I think, around 220 to 250 kilowatts.
So, pretty quick, you know, double what they have now.
In fact tomorrow, at the Boring Company even in L.A.
which I will be at, we may get more.
I know it's a Boring Company event,
but I believe Elon's doing the presentation,
and it's at the Hawthorne facility, very Tesla-like.
You know, everyone I know at Tesla is the one
that are talking to me about it.
So, we may get some more interesting stuff there.
But with this, I mean, I love this.
I love that we're pushing the boundaries of this stuff,
and we're increasing it.
I do have a video that I'm working on right now
talking about this because while electric cars
for 80% of your use case are already here, right?
The majority of people don't drive
more than 60, 70 miles in a day.
Now, even expand that out to where it's even more people.
You know, you're talking a couple hundred miles a day,
you can buy a car, an electric car,
that will fulfill those needs, no problem, hands down.
It's solved.
However, a gas car will have a
tremendously bigger range than an EV,
and is extremely more convenient to refuel, to charge.
So, I was doing some basic math on it,
and I'm going to do a video kind of diving deeper on this,
where if you look at a Honda Civic,
it will go about 450 miles on a charge,
on a full gas tank, 12.4 gallon gas tank.
And, with that, they can refuel in five minutes, right?
Maybe 10 minutes; we'll call it ten minutes.
Compare that to even the best EV in the world right now
with the best charging network,
and it is dramatically less convenient.
Now, again, it doesn't always, you know,
the majority of times, you don't need that,
but if you're like me,
and you want to see a future
where we don't have any
fossil fuel based modes of transportation,
gas, diesel, whatever,
then that's what we have to strive for.
We have to strive for parity in terms of convenience.
And, so that's where this charging story, I'm like,
stoked that we're getting up into 450, 400+ kilowatt range.
But in order to achieve similar parity
to what a gas car would get,
you'd have to be well over 1 megawatt.
And, I mean, I'm not an electrical engineer
so I don't know how hard or kind of impossible
or improbable that may even be.
But stay tuned because I'm doing some math on this,
and I'm going to have a video breaking it down soon.
Well, hopefully after the Boring event next week.
So