[Blueflag]

Perhaps as along as you have an 800 kV supply, you could hit 10 minutes or less.

Presuming equivalent motor efficiencies but slightly lower vehicle weight, one might require 200 kWh of electricity to go 600 miles. It’s just physics.

This technology DOES make the ‘fuel’ tank bigger, but ya gotta be able to fill it.

200 kWh is equivalent to about 4-5 DAYS of electrical consumption for a 3000 sq foot home.

My wife and I (retired) are now likely candidates for a 600 mile EV based on life style. 600 miles is 2-3 weeks of driving for the two of us, combined. I recognize that NOT EVERYONE is a good candidate for an EV and DO NOT support the idea of EV mandates. ALso this time of year our residential solar system is producing about 40 kWh per day and exporting 20-25 kWh daily. Relevance is that we could charge an EV for ‘free’ daily presuming we only drove about 50-60 miles per day (more than our joint average by far). Thus we are NOT a typical household. WE have a good solar system. We generate ‘excess’ power.’ We have 300 AMP service, with an existing 50 amp circuit to the garage. WE drive the target number of miles. We have spare ICE vehicles available.

Someone better than me at figuring amp hours could tell us how long it would take to add say 480 kWh of charge, at 80% efficiency, at 60 amps (doable at our house).

[bert]

There we have it........ there are people for whom EV’s are beneficial.

EV’s are not for the disgruntled Hemi worshipers who are lamenting the death of all that is Chrysler. Nor for those wearing fancy $100 K F-150’s at work. Nor for those who drive on trips exceeding 300 miles on a regular basis.

See your Freep mail

[marktwain]

Someone better than me at figuring amp hours could tell us how long it would take to add say 480 kWh of charge, at 80% efficiency, at 60 amps (doable at our house).

60Ax220V = 13.2 kwhrs per hourx.8 = 10.56. So, about 45 hours to charge 480 kwhrs.