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A brief discussion of the history of EV charging technology

Setec Powerr

The 6kW Wattstation, introduced in 1910, was the earliest prototype of charging equipment for electric cars, and the mercury rectifier was still used to convert AC to DC. 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

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 had two seats, it used lead-acid batteries (because of cost and reliability, not because of your stupid pet conspiracy theory) until the very end, and had an impractically short range. Never again.

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