Or more likely all that will be needed is somebody willing to lend/rent you
a wall socket as you will probably have an emergency low power battery
charger and an extension cord in the car itself :)
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: "Fully Charged in About 8 Minutes"
In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Wed, 3 May 2006 19:14:20
+0200:
Hi,
[snip]
Partial recharging is OK for town use, but if we want full electric for
the
road too we do need full and fast recharging, which as Robin said is
already
possible with current Lithium batteries but a bit long: 8mn is a hell of a
lot. 2 or 3mn as claimed by EEstor would be more like it.
A person driving a pure electric vehicle in the city who runs out of
power
will be stranded.
Or maybe on the contrary unmanned slow recharging stations will be
ubiquitous because they require very little investment and real estate
compared to gas stations, and they will allow one to recharge enough to
get
home or to the next "real" power station.
They will require no real estate at all, and there will be one
about every 10-20 meters. Since they will exist in almost every
private home and business. IOW if you run low you won't have to go
far till you find someone at home willing to make a fast buck by
letting you use his private charging station for half an hour or
so at an exorbitant price. (...and it will teach you to pay more
attention to the fuel gage in future). ;)
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/
Competition provides the motivation,
Cooperation provides the means.
