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so extra 20kw from 7 to 25% or so assuming the curve has to start earlier to hit 250kw at 30%. not life changing amount of time difference.

but on the 4680s i think it'll hold 270kw until deep into the pack. 50% is my hope.
That would be nice but I wouldn’t pitch a fit if they adopted an etron-like curve and went 200KW to 70-75%.
 
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I supercharge every few days, its not the time to charge(sams club gas took 30 mins anyways), its the frequency since my prius prime went 500 miles lol. Having a faster speed up to say 70% would be great
Even when we still had a permanent ICE vehicle our Sam’s club rarely had a line (Costco did) and their gas sucked anyway. The ethanol free station was close enough so just went there.

I don’t mind sitting at a supercharger for half an hour doing some light work on my tablet but past that it starts to get old. I just want beefier charge curves like that of the etron…
 
Costco out here is about 20-25c cheaper than your average Arco/Valero pump (4-5%).

If one is lucky enough to have a home charger, the time saving of not spending 15mns + every Saturday at the Costco pump is significant, even with a few road trips throughout the year. The other point is that spending 30mns at a SC is a lot more enjoyable than lining up at the Costco gas station.

Yeah, I agree. In my 30+ years as a Costco member my nearest one has never had gas, but in one 4-year period my office was a mile down the road from a Costco with gas. Now I'm the worst sort of deal-hunter to the extent I buy too much junk at 50-70% off that I don't really need. For gas I knew where the cheap gas was in every neighborhood, what the difference from Costco was, what the credit card surcharge was, what ARCO's $0.30 debit card fee worked out to per gallon I needed to fill up....

But with all that, it was only worth filling up at Costco when I knew I could go from the office during mid-afternoon hours when the line was short (three cars or less per lane (two pumps per lane). Which was really infrequent, as typical savings I recall was $0.15 x 20 = $3.00, if I could go when my tank was nearly empty. I get that it was a significant savings for the large SUV's that had huge tanks to fill up, but never understood the small sedans, or the other drivers that clearly were only filling up <10 gallons. Sure, if you compare it to any random Shell/Chevron, it might be a big savings, but if folks just used an app like Gasbuddy, they'd realize they could fill up elsewhere for total of $1-2 more than Costco, without waiting 30 minutes... There are also so many other ways every day to save $1-2 on something, that take far less than 30 minutes.
 
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