Comment Re:Just moves a choke point (Score 1) 395
You wouldn't need the big 16 pump Costco gas stations in anywhere near the vast numbers they exist now.
My car spends over 23 hours a day stopped. So do the vast majority of other cars, mine is hardly unique. For 99.9% of driving,.slow charging at home or in an office or mall parking space is entirely adequate. If I owned a Tesla model S, there is exactly one occasion in the last year I would have needed a supercharger station en-route. This would mean an enormous reduction in the number of "gas station like" charge stations required.
The biggest deal though is not the charge rate of this battery but its lifetime. 10,000 charge cycles is much MUCH better than what we have now and will reduce the cost of ownership considerably and may open up new applications that are not automotive, for example - storage of renewable energy when there's too much sun or wind, since the longevity of the battery (and also the charge rate implies a very low internal resistance, in other words, efficiency) starts making this kind of thing practical.