Why does a family SUV need 1000 horsepower?
So you can get to the next red light way faster than the other moms
Carbrains love big numbers.
Because it's hilarious
I want one just to smoke race car drivers in the traffic light drags... while getting a massage in my captain's chair, as the wife and kids watch Finding Nemo
(I don't actually have kids, but the rest applies)
You want an obscene car to show racecar drivers who's boss? Ok
To impress with acceleration of course. Motor goes brrrrr
In seriousness, that vehicle sounds more like those SUVs made from supercar brands
Kind of want for a law that will require a special driving exam if you want to drive car with more than 300 horse power.
Especially if it's going to weigh as much as a small RV
HP is bonkers but don't miss out the charging power of a megawatt. ~~After~~ Are there such chargers out there? But if that works, it gets ICE like refueling speed.
That's awesome, already China has 500 of these. OTOH RIP infrastructure when a few of those cars start charging and you'd need a power plant or two nearby 😵💫 It'd be awesome if each charging station had huge batteries charged though renewables instead.
Hmm maybe something like this: Since most of this fast charging need will be on long trips we want these in highways not in cities where people will be doing more slow charging at home/destination or would be more willing to stop for a bit to eat/explore. So we find a big open area off the highway and install a solar/bess plant. The bess charges all day but doesn't connect to the grid (no interconnection requests yay!) it just charges it's local bess. The bess is then used to power the charging stations.
Yeah I think that could work. No interconnects, no transformers, cheap land. Seems like a no brainer.
You will want at least some grid connection. Otherwise, you can't sell your electricity when charging demand is low and can't buy electricity when demand is higher than local production.
Still, a reasonably sized battery and combination with local production will likely be a smart business strategy.
I agree you'd want it, but I'd argue there's a case to be made for skipping it. Go look up the current interconnection queues. You could save yourself a ton of headaches by just skipping that. Enough to account for the lack of sales you're describing? Maybe not. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Plus you'd open up all kinds of land procurement opportunities that would save you a crazy amount as well. Transmission infrastructure is expensive and painful these days. Transformer lead times are measured in years and prices are crazy. If you could skip all that and get the land cheap? Idk man I think it'd pencil
I wouldn't need the motor power (by far!), but the charging power is a game changer, because it reduces recharging to the same amount of time as topping up fuel - that is if the battery can do that over a lifetime without massively degrading.
It does degrade the battery, but you would only be doing that on rare long road trips, and not in your daily driving around town. That should minimize degradation. If you are charging at megawatt speed daily, your battery isn’t going to last long.
There are some manufacturers with 800 volt battery technology, who offer >200 kW charging power.
With proper cooling that seems to be quite ok for the battery.
1,000 kW is for sure way more, but less than an order of magnitude more.
We'll see how that pans out.
The Big Chonker
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