A better measure is the 0 to 80% time with a 350kW charger. That'll actually tell you how long you can expect to wait at a charger. But that's also not as flashy a number as "1000 miles per hour charging!"
No it's not, because different cars have different capacities. This measure standardises that.
Once I've selected a car I'm interested in the 20-80% charge time (that seems to be the recommended fill levels), but until then I'm comparing cars with different batteries and I need something use to compare and 0-80% at 350kW time is not that.
It’s directly proportional to time you’ll have to wait to drive X distance.
If they reported time to fill up the battery, it would vary between battery sizes, and overall time spent charging would be different due to different number of charging stops.
If they reported charging power (kW), it would mean different range depending on vehicle efficiency.
This is the best unit. You know how far you travel, you can easily calculate how long you will charge.
No. First, an ICE car's fuel tank is filled up in a small fraction of an hour; "miles/minute" would be a more relevant unit. But more importantly, because the speed of fuel fill up depends only on the fuel station's pump, not on any engineering feature of the car itself.
But that’s exactly what my EV’s app shows. (-: