Pretty sure the people writing the article misread or misinterpreted that line of text, lol!
Math just doesn’t add up. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 5:41 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT New electric car The headline reads: All-electric GT unveiled with over 300 miles of range and 5-min charging enabled by mysterious battery<https://electrek.co/2019/03/04/electric-gt-piech-mark-zero-mysterious-battery/> From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Monday, March 04, 2019 5:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT New electric car Again, I think they meant about 5 hours to charge, not just under four minutes, lol! From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 4:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com<mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT New electric car I thought I read that Tesla announced a new "super" super charger that could do 350KW. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:28 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com<mailto:n...@blastcomm.com>> wrote: Isn't that the kind of electric service you have running to your house? Didn't I see the latest Tesla chargers are 200-250kw. On 3/4/2019 4:20 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Piech Mark Zero Claims 311 mile range. At 3.11 miles per kW that would be a 100 kWh battery. OK, within the realm of posibilities. 4:40 minutes to 80% battery capacity. So 280 seconds or .077 hours to dump 83 kWh into the battery. 83/.077=1067 kW So you have to have 1 Megawatt power source to charge? 2223 amps of 480 service. I am doubting this. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ________________________________ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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