Think outside the box. 240 KILO volts. :-)
On a more serious note, lightweight capacitor storage units might be
more readily exchanged than 1,000 pound batteries.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Gray wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote
>
> <On the 1,000 pound battery front I was reading of a truly exiciting
> potential within the last couple of weeks to use capacitor storage with
> a new breed of capacitors based on nano technology. Huge surface areas
> of nano tubes would make very large, lightweight capacitors possible.
> Recharging could be extremely fast unlike a chemical battery.>
>
> I cannot imagine that recharging would ever be as fast as pumping the
> same amount of energy as petrol. I think we are talking of several
> tens of kilowatt-hours to recharge the batteries - domestically in
> the UK, only the circuit for an electric cooker normally comes
> anything like the 10kw rating which would correspond to an hour for
> every 10 kilowatt hour (ie a 40 amp circuit in the UK at 240
> Volts). More likely, for long distance use, such cars might have to
> change battery packs like stage coaches changed horses! Urban use is
> a different matter.
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