Thread by @AukeHoekstra

When I wrote my first book about electric vehicles in 2008, fast charging was still non-existent.

In 2012/2013, companies like @Tesla and @Fastned started rolling out the first 50 kW fast chargers.

And now 300/350 kW chargers are being built.
We are witnessing a revolution!

https://twitter.com/RolandvanderPut/status/1301480903387099137

To be clear: Epyon (a Dutch company later bought by ABB) was already trying to sell fast chargers and Posicharge was selling them to big warehouses. But there were no networks and affordable batteries could not charge that fast. (As I also describe in the book.)

And in the book I calculate that rolling out a barebones fast charging network over the Netherlands would cost around 100 million Euros. Which is actually really cheap for what you get. So it was a fan back then already!

Here's a link to a download of the book and the page where I wrote about fast charging. I think charted the course we are still on pretty nicely. Only wrong assumption I see is that existing players would implement this instead of new ones like @Fastned.
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