Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Please help me with this Tech Ed question!?

Well, we would have to trade in our gas stations for electrical charging stations. The currently agreed-upon standard for electric cars would be SAE J1772, which would allow for up to 240V 80A charging. Even with all that power, I doubt you could charge an electric car in 10 minutes without the battery exploding. If you can only afford a 10 minute pit stop, you would need some kind of battery-exchange station where you trade out your dead battery for a charged one. If the car is designed for it, you should be able to do this in 10 minutes or less. In fact, I remember seeing an article somewhere about an electric taxi fleet using this method to keep their cars on the road all day.

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