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If you can get 100 mile in half an hour of fast charging, I view this as a better option than a battery swap, which has many many difficulties.

Most folks with an EV aren't going to drive very far in a day, so the charging rate is only relevant on trips over 200-300 miles.

Think of how many batteries total would be needed for battery swap to happen, aside from other issues?  

I see sailboats with a single solar panel quite often. The owners rely on them to charge a single 12V battery. 

It's not nothing, but it's close to nothing

agreed, but every little bit helps.

and it's green energy , not a charging station supplied by a coal or NG plant

if every car and truck in the world had solar panels........it just might add up to a small something

I disagree entirely.  Charging rate is charging rate independent of battery capacity.

I don't understand all your posts, and didn't bother reading them.  I could be wrong, but it seems straightforward to me.

If I hook up a Volt, it charges at the same rate initially as a depleted Tesla with double or triple the battery capacity.

A Tesla contains thousands of individual batteries. The individual batteries are rated to X amperes of maximum charging current. A battery pack is limited to X*N (N being the number of cells to create the pack) of maximum charging current.

Splitting that battery "pack" in half means that you have two batteries each of N/2 size. So each pack can take X*N/2 maximum charging current, which means your total charging current for two packs is 2*X*N/2, or X*N. You've changed nothing by doubling the number of charging ports or chargers.

If splitting the packs in half and doubling the number of charging ports would increase recharge rate, why would Elon Musk not have done it at this point?

BTW if you hook up a Volt to a 250 kW Tesla v3 Supercharger, it won't fill at 250 kW, because the battery can't accept that much current.

The problem is that you're ONLY looking at this from the flow rate of the source. You're not looking at it from the rate at which the battery can accept charge, which is the limiting factor.

If the hose output is the same, then you'll fill one 10L bucket twice as fast with two hoses as you will with one. Along the same lines, if you have two 5L buckets, you'll fill them with 2 hoses AT THE SAME RATE as you will fill one 10L bucket with two hoses. It doesn't matter whether it's one 10L bucket or two 5L buckets if the hose flow rate is the key.

What I'm saying is that with batteries, it is NOT the hose flow rate that is the limiting factor--it is the battery cell maximum charging current.

SCREW IT!!!

SCREW IT!!!

Horses fart.

We do burn biomass for energy, it's a small contributor.  Biomass generally contains a lot of water and that is a problem.  The same is true with municipal waste, only worse, way too much water to burn, so they fire the plants with NG to generate enough heat to get rid of the water as steam so the biomass can burn.

Water is bad in a combustible fuel, an energy soak.