Electric Car Drives 375 Miles at 55 mph, Recharges In 6 Minutes

Yeah, but, like they said, it takes 6 min­utes to charge from “a direct cur­rent source”. Like Hoover Dam.

This rep­re­sents tremen­dous progress and there’s no rea­son the coun­try that built the transcon­ti­nen­tal rail­road, the Panama Canal, per­fected the light bulb, built the first air­plane, and put a man on the moon can’t do much bet­ter. The nation’s great engi­neer­ing schools and research facil­i­ties should be chal­lenged and incen­tivised to do so.

Such a car — if it is real and the news release on it is not a bait-and-switch entice­ment for investor money — has all of the con­sumer mar­ket magic as to be able to dra­mat­i­cally heighten the demand for elec­tric cars over fossil-fuels cars abruptly, in the short term, and tremen­dously ener­gize the auto man­u­fac­tur­ing and sales with an empha­sis on elec­tric cars.  There are four mar­ket magic imper­a­tives required to hyper ener­gizer the demand for elec­tric cars, three of which have been claimed of this car, being a sub­stan­tial dri­ving range per full bat­tery charge (a very budget-friendly out­stand­ing 375 miles), an ade­quate top dri­ving speed (55 mph, ade­quate for nor­mal com­mut­ing and more than ade­quate for local dri­ving) and a rapid recharge time (an out­stand­ing bat­tery charge time of 6 min­utes that is com­pet­i­tive with a gas-station gas-pump gaso­line fill up, yet bet­ter than a gas-station gas pump fill since this sup­posed car can be charged at home and at some work­places with­out the incon­ve­nience and some­times nui­sance of hav­ing to wait in one’s car in a gaso­line pump line).  The remain­ing magic fea­ture it must have to hyper ener­gize demand for it, or any round­edly capa­ble elec­tric car com­pet­i­tive with gaso­line cars, is a gen­er­ally afford­abil­ity price, of $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 to make it price rea­son­able, afford­able (bud­get com­pat­i­ble) and pop­u­lar with a mass mar­ket and the major­ity of middle-class households.  

Electric car man­u­fac­tur­ers and sales deal­er­ships also need to empha­size that elec­tric cars are tuneup and oil-change, are sim­ple and inex­pen­sive to ser­vice as well as lower in cost to insure than fossil-fuel cars.

I would like to buy one too.