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. If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps. A vehicle with a 200 mile range like the Tesla Roadster would easily be able to do the trip with one recharge.
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