Letter: Biden’s tariffs only prolong the wait on EV charging

The real problem with battery charging is the waiting time (Opinion, May 16). We have a garage and a home charger but if you park on the street you can’t have cables stretching across the pavement.

The answer is removable batteries. These are increasingly found in China, where a battery with a 150-mile range can get installed in one minute. This is the only way electric cars will appeal to people who drive long distances or for long hours and can’t afford to sit around for a few hours while their battery is charged.

Joe Biden’s new tariffs on electric cars from China will simply delay the introduction of replaceable batteries in the US and carmakers will have to agree some kind of common standard for batteries.

We have one common standard for petrol and diesel, so why not for universal car batteries?

Craig Sams
Hastings, East Sussex, UK