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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps. Chrysler used this for their EPIC Minivan and could charge at a rate of about one mile per minute. A vehicle with a 200 mile range like the Tesla Roadster would easily be able to do the trip with one recharge.