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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Check with an electrical engineer for what size wiring would be required to deliver 50 kilowatts of power in 10 minutes.
then multiply that by 600 stations.


61 posted on 01/16/2022 10:40:46 AM PST by Happy Flyer
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To: Happy Flyer
Check with an electrical engineer

I have an MSEE and 40 years industry experience. Despite that, I know that watts (or kilowatts, or megawatts) is a unit of power, energy per unit time. One watt is equal to a joule per second. One watt-second is a joule.

Ignoring transients, and just thinking about steady state (and for most applications, 10 minutes is steady state) the charge on a battery is usually specified in amp-hours, with the battery terminal voltage being implied. So a 12 V battery charged to 100 amp-hours would have a charge equivalent to 12 x 3600 x 100 = 4,320,000 joule.

Tesla touts their supercharging stations as 250 kW chargers, that can provide 200 miles of charge in 15 minutes. At 50 kW, that would be 1:15 (75 minutes.) A home 115 VAC outlet can only supply at most 1.8 kW, roughly 35 hours for the same result. Using "dryer connection", 30 AMPS at 220 would reduce it to a little under 9 hours. Again, an average commute of 30 miles would require over five hours charging on a 115 VAC household current, per commute.

137 posted on 01/16/2022 12:35:45 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Happy Flyer

That’s a lot of copper!


389 posted on 01/18/2022 12:50:55 PM PST by gr8eman (When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
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