Nobody would siphon the diesel out of their car and pour it into their home heating. Even though a combustion engine is basically a giant heater on wheels. An EV is different, but only if we stop settling for „cope with it.“

🧱 People want charging to be like refueling as they’re conditioned that way. No need to get used to anything new and who wants that anyway. Until you drive electric for a while and realise the analogy makes no sense most of the time. What’s sold as pragmatism is nothing but capitulation dressed up as realism. Because „cope with it“ has never driven innovation.

💡An EV is a structurally different system, not a combustion engine and therefore not a heater on wheels. And this system can do things a combustion engine can’t even dream of, while both spend 95% of their time sitting in a parking spot.

🔋 Your car is essentially a mobile energy storage unit. It can charge and discharge, and this is where the system gets powerful. Charge cheaply, feed power back into the grid at a premium or into your home to save money when prices are high.

⚡ Or think about inductive charging while driving, already being tested in Sweden btw. The closest thing to that when it comes to ‚like refueling‘ would be fighter jets refuelled mid-air, which is complex and requires lots of special equipment. With an EV it’s dead simple. The biggest hurdle is defining a unified standard.

„Cope with it“ optimises for the combustion engine. Those who take the structural advantages of a battery seriously will build something entirely new. This is not the future. This is possible today. And some have already started with it.
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