Even my lowly leaf quickcharges at 50KW. The traction is 80KW(plus losses). That is already a lot of power.

Compared to a house, that's a lot. Not even a modern house on a 200A breaker supplying 220V can go that high - could get around 44KW but not continuously. Many homes are still on 100A service.

1.4MW on a car is mind-blowing and in the realm of sci-fi not too long ago.

This tech will eventually become mundane and available everywhere (and hopefully some of that will leak into other areas). But for now it's still spectacular.

> This tech will eventually become mundane and available everywhere

It probably won't, due to sheer physics, and the cost of dealing with them. However, what it will do is drop the price floor out of lower power applications - no longer will that level of tech be competing for the high end. It's exciting!

I've been pretty impressed with the Leaf - I don't have one, but some friends do. Pretty hackable and serviceable on your own. The acceleration and torque on that thing is insane. It's pretty easy to swap out the batteries of an early generation with a newer generation, and even possible to build your own out of a stack of 18650s. If only the integrated frame was as easily serviceable :)

If I had a use for such a car, I would get one - (perhaps) unfortunately, my driving needs are limited to going larger distances, often with off-road stretches.

1.4 MW is subway train territory.

I wonder how long that lasts.