Something does not make sense to me: One backpack sized unit probably holds about 5kWh of usable energy. The quoted price of $20 for 100 miles range would mean that this device, which is indeed very handy and can be life-saving, can add about 20 miles to the range of a Leaf, so you would need to find someone who is willing to drive this backpack to a stranded Leaf and wait there until it has transferred its energy into the Leaf and then get paid $4 for your time? I don’t think so… BTW, I say that this is a handy range extender, because I have a very similar gadget in the trunk of my own Leaf which has 4 bars lost, so the range is reduced to almost half the original, which is still enough for me, but carrying an extra pack in the trunk, attached to a sine wave inverter which feeds it into a charging station which has a J1772 plug with cord long enough to insert into the front of the vehicle when I want to charge while parked in a place that has no charger – yeah, that is very handy. At the local EV Rally a few years back I saw a lady from San Francisco who came down with her EV and did not want to bother to find a charger when she arrived at the event, so after the event she was not sure if she could make it back so she called AAA and had them bring out one of their roadside trucks with a charging station attached to a genset in the truck bed, so instead of soaking up the Solar generated electrons at the DeAnza parking lot, the AAA truck was now belching out Diesel fumes for over half an hour, charging her car at a modest 30Amps (12kW) until she judged that she could make it safely back to San Francisco… One of the SMH (Shaking My Head) moments… But this also means that people who have roadside assistance will not call Sparkcharge… Cor.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Alan Arrison via EV Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 6:37 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Alan Arrison Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: $20/100mi sparkcharge> L3 recharges @1mi/min (v) Wonderful, waste more energy delivering energy to an EV. I suppose it would be fine if you were at 0% with no chargers around. On 10/30/2018 11:31 PM, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > > https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/10/24/charging-an-electric-vehicle-with-sparkcharge-as-easy-as-ordering-a-pizza/#106856fa4c65 > Charging An Electric Vehicle With SparkCharge: As Easy As Ordering A Pizza > 2018-10-24 Jeff Kart > > [image > https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fjeffkart%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F10%2Fsparkchargeblrd-1200x800.jpg > SparkCharge electric vehicle buffalo > One of the SparkCharge units in action.SparkCharge > > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181031/15a3bfbc/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
