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To: discostu

To charge that fast, you need more current than standard household.

If the technology works, you would either charge overnight or have one permanently mounted in your garage and the other in your car. The one in the garage would charge the one in the car and would recharge off a standard 220 volt circuit.

A gas (recharge) station would need a unit large enough to ballance out the total power needed over 24 hours and would have an industrial connection to the grid.

If it works as advertised, electric cars would truely perform as well as gasoline for the majority of drivers.


80 posted on 03/08/2007 2:13:01 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: dangerdoc

That could work. I'm just thinking the lower the power requirements to get this thing revved to that level of charge the cheaper it will be for businesses to support it. It's easier to make a "filling" station with 24 of these outlets if their power drain is that of a small walk-in refrigerator than if it has the power drain of a mega laser (just to pull conceptual examples from the top of my head). Could definitely change the equation.


81 posted on 03/08/2007 2:21:55 PM PST by discostu (The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks)
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