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Dale_Traveling
Dec 18, 2018Explorer II
jharrell wrote:
,,, The charger to charge the thing in a hour needs to put out a solid megawatt that's like powering a 1000 homes. If you plugged it into a campsite 50 amp service it would over 80 hours at full blast to recharge.
And that's 80 hours ONLY if every watt available from camp ground 50Amp 120VAC split phase service is available for battery recharging.
Now let's scale this up in. Consider a couple of thousand large vehicles plugging in each night and the potential demand for recharge power. The average American home consumes about 900 kWh per month. A semi or class A is consuming that much in one day. Current generation and distribution capacity is not even close to supporting this new demand. The necessary improvements will make the Tennessee Valley, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam and the Manhattan projects look like small scale residential neighborhood master planning.
Rolling black outs anyone?
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