I got an EV last year and I've loved it. It seems to me the only draw back is the charging time. I periodically have to drive ~500 miles in a day. That's 8-9 hours with two or three ~5 min stops in my old ICE vehicle.

I just did it in the EV and stopping to charge when it told me to... It took 11 hours with 3 ~40 minute stops.

Now I'll say this, I kinda didn't mind em, I watched a TV show stretched my legs, got a bite to eat. But if I was in a rush, that's a lot slower.

I'm wondering if there seems to be much room for innovation on battery charging, new techniques? more power? different chemistry? Or are we kind of looking at boundaries in physics?

Mostly I'm asking cause my new phone seems to charge maybe 3x faster than my old one... are there similarly big leaps coming in automotives?