Re: [Vo]: "Bettery" on-the-way?

[Jed Rothwell]

thomas malloy wrote:

Suppose you want to recharge a dozen cars at one time, ten times 
per hour (six minutes each) during the peak rush hour. That's 120
I have a simple answer, you plug the car in when you shut it off. 
I'm talking about a garden variety, 20 Amp plug in.

That's fine for short trips, but Mike Carrell is saying that on long 
trips over highways beyond the range of the batteries quick to 
recharge electric cars have a real problem. He is right. A recharge 
station similar to a 12 page gasoline station would require a large 
bank of super capacitors and also a 1 MB or 2 MB power supply -- like 
the kind used in a large hospital or hotel. This would surely cost 
far more than a conventional gas station. The problem is not 
insurmountable but it would be expensive.

- Jed