Gearless Fast Charge

A quick trip to the fast charger. Stupidly didn't actually set a stop watch to time it. Timer said 29 minutes but it was done in under 15. Next time I'll do it properly

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Robert
• Llewellyn
• Gearless
• electric
• car
• fast
• charge
• 440
• volts

[xonegon]

Does the battery drain a lot faster when transporting 2 -3 other persons with this car?

[GearlessUK]

Haven't noticed a big difference, I'm sure it would reduce the range a little

[simeoneous]

Robert, are Mitsubishi or Tesla looking at the possibility of keeping the battery charged for longer by harnessing the kinetic energy to generate 'top-up' electricity while the car is in motion. Or would it be so little as to not be worth exploring?

[GearlessUK]

@simeoneous They already do that. All electric cars use 'regenerative braking' which sends some of the power used to gain motion back into the batteries. It's around 10%.

[GearlessUK]

@choc113  This is a very good point. I am sure the govt will introduce a tax on electricity once the cars become more common. However, you can produce electricity yourself, you cannot produce petrol yourself.

[Zamboro]

@richandiben

You can't even refuel a gasoline vehicle that fast.

[carpediem1956]

you are surprised their aren't so many on the road? I think the price explains 99 % of your amazement. :-p far to expensive. Instead of paying for gas you need to pay an enormous premium for the battery at purchase time. The gasoline price you can spread over time... Once this premium is gone and you can make immediate savings at 'the pump' it will boom

[drbaltazar]

we ll probably see those quick recharging station in truckstop first (since there are resto to relax while it is charging even if it take an hour to charge most user will be delighted because the main issue everybody had wasnt the distance but how long it take to charge .if they can make 45 minute charging the norm ev will be adopted very quickly

[pcarlson1979]

I live in Australia and tried like hell to try and buy one of these. I had to answer questions to see if I "qualify" to but one. Long story short, 3 of these were imported into Australia and just leaded to government departments. That's it!!

Tight ass Aussie government give no incentives to buy green cars. Our government are full of sh*t.

I'm buying an electric scooter this weekend for $5000 from Melbourne. Still does 100km/h and 140km range. It will do until a "real" electric car is offered

[Jesus45U]

Fast recharge electrical vehicles will probably be one of the big sellers in relative near future, especially for small city cars. The recharge time has to go down some though, 4-5 minutes tops, or the queues at the recharge stations will become too long to be practical.

As for the backbone, base it off known technology, like the train overhead lines .. most of europe use 25kvolt train lines already and they can carry a lot of juice. Make the recharge stations near train stations, and voilá.

[ElectricCarFan]

I thought residents of England use kilometers, not miles due to Europe's use of the Metric System? I thought that today only 3 countries use the Imperial System, Burma, Liberia, and the United States.

[taztaz79]

@thinfourth Yepp!! That is 30kW of power! If i use 1 phase in my house (230v 16A) i will get 3,7kW .. If i use all 3 phases i will get (400v 16A) 6,4kW .. So there is still a long way to go to that monster charger :) That charger uses more power than my whole company building where i work...  :)

[richardcorsale]

Ohhhh I want one... I read about this technology several years ago, but I was under the impression that the special sauce was on the battery, not the pump(?). The one I'm thinking of was the Dewalt power tool's battery (Pop Sci 09).

[Zamboro]

@bigbleuboy

8 cents per mile. That is, if you subscribe to the eMiles plan. That way you pay only for what you use, eventually paying off the cost of the battery over it's useful lifespan. Otherwise it's a monthly fee of about $150 which gradually pays off the battery, By the time you need a new one, it's been paid for.

[thinfourth]

430volts and 70Amps

Thats a scarey amount of juice

[bigbleuboy]

yeh although the fuel(electric is cheap) just out of interest how much to change the battery?