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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Renault-Nissan Alliance launched a pilot project in Arizona earlier this month to test out a charging network ahead of the planned 2010 launch of its electric vehicle. For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. my idea is that it would work the way propane tanks work now.