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Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Typical tabloid battery rubbish..

745 miles, assume 5 miles/kwh which is not unreasonable. That's a 3.7Mwh battery (which my back of the envelope calcs would weight about 5 tonnes).

Charge that in 10 minutes you'd have to feed it from a 22Mw charger. So the output of a decent size offshore wind turbine. Per charger.

I haven't got a clue how bloody heavy the connector would have to be.. it wouldn't be CCS, I can tell you that..

[โ€“] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I find it funny how the media has just regurgitated their bullshit with essentially zero fact checking. This stuff is just outside the understanding of most people that they might not question it. To them this is Toyota making these claims. The company that made the '95 Camry which has been passed around to various family members and rolled up 300k miles. They trust Toyota. Maybe a little too much.