[LINK] Electric vehicles and generation

[Kim Holburn]

There is a long discussion of this on slashdot:

  Electric Cars and Their Discontents
http://backslash.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/174214

On 2006 Jul 22, at 4:10 PM, Antony Barry wrote:

>
> On 22/07/2006, at 8:10 AM, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
>> Oops. How embarrasingly stupid I am: RTFM. The car claims 185kW  
>> engine output; allowing for less-than-100% efficiency, it uses  
>> about 200kWh per hour of running time. Covering my head in shame  
>> now...
>
> And -
>
>> the lightweight machine can go 250 miles on a single charge. (When  
>> connected to a special 220-volt, 70-amp outlet, recharging takes  
>> about three and a half hours.)
> Ouch! 15kw!
>
> It would pull in 30 minutes what my house uses in a day.
>

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