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. A visit to the gas station takes minutes not seconds and so the California Air Resource board, when it established fast charging standards, set the goal of charging the batteries to 80% in 10 minutes.
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