Why stop with 220. If someone on the list is a lineman certified to climb power poles you could stop anywhere and charge as long as you could access the pole. I guarantee a charge in less than 10 minutes with 20,000volts. Just need a transformer to go from pole voltage to 880 @1000 amps. Is that too fast. Lawrence Rhodes... There are some legalities to consider.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter VanDerWal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Cross country charging challenge/Opinion
> > > > > >I read an article about a team going cross-country > >without a > >support vehicle. It was unclear how they charged. > >Does anybody > >know? The article said that they used fiberglass > >booms to hook > >over roadside power lines, but it did not give any > >details about > >their charger. I thought about several ideas, and > >none of them > >seemed really practical. > > > > This was about 20 years ago as I recall. They used a transformer like > you normally find mounted on telephoen poles outside most houses to > convert the high tension power line voltage down to 220V and then hooked > their charger into that. > > Another fellow did it a year or two ago using an EV-1. He pre-arranged > stops every 60 miles or so to plug in (peoples houses, hotels, > resteraunts, etc.) >
