What electric car rechages in 30 minutes?
Tesla has just opened several “Super” charging stations in the Northeast.
According to Tesla, 30 minutes will get you 150 miles with their new and most powerful battery package.
The car costs $101,000.
The electric charge is currently free, but hard to believe that enticement will last.
The Tesla super charger is a 60 kWh device. Let’s see . . . 60 kWh . . . times 10,000 spaces . . . carry the seven . . . that would come to 600 mWh. That would be about equal to the output of 200 diesel/electric locomotives, or a small nuclear power plant.
That really shouldn’t be a problem. I’m sure that New York City has electricity to spare, and Bloomberg could always restrict residential air conditioning in the summer—limit usage to 16 ounces of air conditioning or something.