from Hacker News

Fisker: electric car battery with “500 miles range and 1 min charging”

by gergoerdi on 11/17/17, 1:26 AM with 3 comments

  • by olympus on 11/17/17, 3:09 AM

    "...graphene based..."

    Oh. So this is vaporware. My opinion is also backed up by buzzwords like "2.5D," and the fact that everything in the article is written in future tense. Nothing has been demonstrated yet.

  • by londons_explore on 11/17/17, 10:38 AM

    To charge a 400 kWH battery in 1 minute requires 24 Megawatts. That's a power supply for 24,000 houses. Have fun hooking up the high voltage lines to your car and then standing at a safe distance of 30 feet while the power flows...