The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
An EV like this would need to store 6KWHrs of power in the batteries if we assume the system is 100% efficient. When GM installed chargers for the EV1 they used a 50amp 220V circuit that could pump over 6KW into the batteries. Chrysler used this for their EPIC Minivan and could charge at a rate of about one mile per minute.
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