I think you are missing the mark a bit by saying it's not going to work for them. Perhaps you have bittered in your old age and forgot what it was like to be young and want to have fun.
Well not quite... when I was young I had tons of fun with just 40bhp. The motorcycle industry's chief marketing tactic however is to put you on a treadmill of upgrading to bigger and bigger and more powerful and above all more expensive bikes. That's almost their entire marketing plan. This is also why the motorcycle industry is so fucked.
The perpetual treadmill has seen the complete death of the 600 class as the power outputs spiralled into irrelevance to the point that they were so uncomfortable and extreme and peaky that nobody could be arsed with riding them any more. The 1000 class has gone the same way, with even more ridiculous power output. All the fun's gone out of these bikes, they're just sold to midlife crisis men who eventually realise that actually, they don't want that much power or the aching back or the paranoia any more.
The most fun I've had in the last 20 years on bikes was my 690 Duke. Turns out it is exactly at the sweet spot of price, weight, and performance, and it also turns out that the biggest selling bikes are all making that sort of output too - the MT07, Trident, etc. I watch with my
head in my hands now as I see the Hornet, GSX8-S, 890 Duke, etc. all doing the
exact same pattern of getting ever more powerful...
Anyway my rambling point is, more power is a marketing trick that we fall for when we're young. We don't need more power. Especially not in the EV world right now, as it just means a dead battery in 10 miles. What we need is charging convenience.
The AC charging protocol is, btw, as you describe. There's a demand signal, which is analogue I believe; bike sends appropriate signal down the wire, charger supplies appropriate current/voltage, job done. Nearly all of the control is done by the vehicle. DC charging seems much more complex, likely because of the
vastly increased danger, and is controlled chiefly by the charger, which has to be extremely finicky about what it puts out because if there is even the slightest hint that something is not right at the end of that charging cable it could cause instant death, fire, or explosions.
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