Thread: MIT Student Built Electric Car Charges in 10 Minutes
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Unread 26-08-2009, 15:28
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Re: MIT Student Built Electric Car Charges in 10 Minutes
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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
Electric service to a typical house can provide the necessary power. It just takes big wires connected to a big breaker at the main breaker panel.
1400 Amps!?!? I don't think the whole transformer feeding my street is even that large. This will become an increasing problem with electric cars. I speculate if everyone on my street plugged in a Tesla, the first air conditioner to turn on would kill power for the whole street.
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