70% charge in 2 minutes - a game changer?

[bogan]

We will still need a variety of plastic and chemical products in our lives, many needed raw base materials sourced from refined crude oil. So we will still be extracting oil and will be silly not to burn the petrol part in a useful way.

As for fire risk, petrol needs an ignition source and for the most part is still well contained in a safe manner after a collision.

Batteries however already preheated from heavy use are primed to self combust if the right shockloading is applied. The problem is this may not occur til sometime after wards when least expected.
Just imagine high siding your electric bike and the marshals saying right that's your days fun over that thing might burn up...

We've already seen it with apple devices which are mostly highly regarded in reliability having some units batteries catch fire by themselves.

Fixed power plants providing energy for electrics is a far more efficient way to burn it.

Different chemistries behave in different ways, some are susceptible to those things, but many of the ones developed for ev usage are not.

[Naki Rat]

Wow!

I wonder what volt drop and current increase takes place as he keeps the load on as hard as he can (within his driving capability) and there is no re-charge capacity!

Typically the voltage remains stable throughout the battery discharge the same as you experience with Li-Ion battery power tools but you are right in that there will be limited regenerative braking on a run like that. The lack of 'engine braking' also demands that EVs have better brake spec's than ICE vehicles. A few scant details about Monster's EV here but with even the weight of the specially built wheels being secret it gives an indication of the degree of competition in the research being done by EV developers.

This article gives some good info but still lacking battery spec's other than to say that battery performance vs. weight is the primary limiting factor in EV vehicle performance, (and that applies from the LEAF to Monster's beast!).