http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/21/ultimate-aero-ev/

1000HP EV that will charge completely in 10 minutes off a standard 110v outlet, and run for 200 miles?

Is this the kind of technology you get when you have product engineers that smoke crack?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/21/ultimate-aero-ev/

1000HP EV that will charge completely in 10 minutes off a standard 110v outlet, and run for 200 miles?

Is this the kind of technology you get when you have product engineers that smoke crack?
Somebody is smoking something, that's for sure! A "standard" 110V outlet is typically 120VAC @ 15A. This type of outlet is capable of delivering up to 1.8kW; connecting for 10 minutes would give you a whopping 300W-hr of charge in your EV battery. Running 200 miles on 300W-hr gives an energy usage of 1.5W/mile, which is an unbelievable number. More reasonable numbers for EV energy usage are in the hundreds of watts per mile range.

Bob Lutz reported (http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/01/gm-volt-exclusive-bob-lutz-details-volt-mule-energy-use-in-highway-driving/) the Volt mule's energy usage to be 4.8kWh for about 20 miles of driving. This works out to be about 240W/mile.

That's what you get when you have marketing majors and environmentalists writing articles about cars. Of course the engineer meant it can be charged in 10 minutes (using a quick-charge system) and also charged using a simple 110 V outlet (in a few days).

That's what you get when you have marketing majors and environmentalists writing articles about cars. Of course the engineer meant it can be charged in 10 minutes (using a quick-charge system) and also charged using a simple 110 V outlet (in a few days).

I actually read a comment somewhere to that effect, where they thought a 10 min charge might be possible with a second refrigerator sized battery (that charges in the background) but dumps the juice into the EV within 10min.

But that was conjecture.

Only thing that would make sense though.

That could work if the battery was like the 500 kWh version of the Altairnano (http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/07/11/altairnano-2mw-battery-passes-tests-could-help-green-the-grid/). Anywho, the Aero EV was already discussed back then (http://gm-volt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2362&highlight=shelby).