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A brief discussion of the history of EV charging technology

Setec Powerr

In addition, many homes were not connected to electricity until the early 20th century, so charging an electric car at home was impossible. From the information at the time, it had a separate billing system and could draw up to 150 amps to charge the lead-acid 48V batteries of the time.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. 80 miles was the range of the EV1 with Lead Acid batteries, that GM tried to use because they wanted the project to fail. it was the first batch of EV1s that they tried to use lead acid batteries and developed problems.

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