alt.energy.renewable

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:19:16 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:

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>News wrote:
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>> "Jean" wrote
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>> > The problem of the electrical cars' range can be solved if we install
>> > recharging's terminals everywhere, including on the aeries of
>> > freeways. Since the complete recharging takes several hours, it is
>> > possible to reduce it by equipping every battery of an independent
>> > male electrical plugs, and every recharging's terminal of so much
>> > female plugs. So the time of recharging of n batteries will take so
>> > much time as the recharging of one of them.
>>
>> Look up the Toshiba battery which they claim will take 80% of full charge in
>> about 3 to 5 minutes. When these come on line then the situation with
>> acceptance of electric cars will change.
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>Toshiba have only made small batteries using this technology. I wouldn't assume
>it will automatically scale to something say 10,000 times larger.
>
>Graham
>

Think about the numbers to recharge a 20KWH battery in 5 minutes.