Super long-term kernel support - fuel availability for 20-year-old cars

Posted Mar 29, 2018 18:30 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Super long-term kernel support - fuel availability for 20-year-old cars by giraffedata
Parent article: Super long-term kernel support

> How does a corner charging station work? Doesn't it take hours to charge a car?

Full charge, or useful charge?

These figures are from when I was looking at possibly getting a Nissan Leaf about 3 years ago ...

Time to full charge - several hours.
Time to 80% charge - 30 minutes? A decent motorway services rest break.

So, bearing in mind our daughter lives over 200 miles away, with a range of about 200 miles we could get there *easily* with one short stop at a service station to recharge. Both the car, and ourselves :-)

And while the UK plans to ban the sale of non-electric cars by 2040, I suspect we will still have small liquid-fuel engines that can provide top-up power. I'm planning for my next car to be a mixed-mode car - primarily electric with backup petrol engine for when the range is insufficient.

Cheers,
Wol