The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Let’s consider a simple example, say an EV conversion that has a 120V pack and a range of around 30 miles. An EV like this would need to store 6KWHrs of power in the batteries if we assume the system is 100% efficient. If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps.
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