EV charging in less than 10 minutes: Zeekr 7X test confirms fastest charging SUV

The whole fast charging thing and the massive amounts of energy that is being transferred has caused me to “see” afresh the crazy amount of energy that is transferred when we refuel an ICE car. I can recall as a child seeing stories about stations exploding from time to time - I just did a search and saw this report that says there over 5,000 station fires a year. https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/stations.pdf

It easy to forget that refuelling is really dangerous - we just don’t think about it as it is normalised. I recall a gas station explosion being attributed to a man with a nylon jacket refueling and having a static discharge - I could not find that story but found this one with a video https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/watch-static-electricity-fir... of fire stated by static at a pump.

Here is a compilation about static caused fires at filling stations https://ehso.emory.edu/sso/documents/toolbox-training-static...

So I think that there is the potential for there to be a massive reduction in refueling fires by moving away from petroleum but as with any new form of mass behavior we are likely to find all the low probability failure modes for this new way of refueling.

While it is nice to have quick charging, I find the "medium" quick charging to be completely fine for my usage. It "forces" me to take a short rest every 2-3h to go from 10->50-ish percent, while I'm using restrooms and/or taking our dog for a really short walk. I get that some people, at some time need to drive copious amounts of distance and can't wait to move on, but driving with family and pets on long journeys for me, mostly means those breaks are going to be needed and appreciated and the charging is just not noticeable as a time sink at all.

I'm sure this will help them sell a few more units, especially to people who hasn't owned EVs before, but you figure out quite quickly that the range-anxiety you had before buying it wears off really fast afterwards.