Robert Llewellyn is a Brit with a keen interest in electric cars who is one of those leasing a Mitsubishi iMiev this year. He's got a great weekly video podcast, Gearless, chronicling his experiences. This week, Quick Charge. Using the same Japanese device I visited in Vacaville last week.
He uses quaint British time-measurement terms. "A cuppa and bacon bun" is how long it takes to fill up. I wish he'd been more specific, using standard quantitative terms (like minutes,) giving us the state of charge he arrived with and left with.
Anyway, Robert is wowed by how quickly the car charges. We can see that the charger delivered 345 volts at 70 amps, which is actually on the slow side for fast chargers. Check it out:
Popular Post
-
Carloft Berlin, 10 loft suites + 1 panorama loft penthouse (click images for a larger view)
-
V8 / 8.192 cc / 226 PS / 380 ft/lb (515 Nm) @ 2.000 (click images for a larger view)
-
Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in ...
-
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 1, 2009. Trees on the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway would all be cut down and we would get 8-16' ...
-
Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 29, 2012, 9:05 AM. Traffic was light on the 2 Freeway, southbound; it was only backed up to the 5 Freeway....
-
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 26, 2012. Developers cut down nearly 4 acres** of urban forest next to the 2 Freeway to grade the Semi Trop...
-
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 4, 2012. Arrow points to squirrel atop the 12' pile of dead trees awaiting clearance in Red Car Canyon....
-
It’s never a boring day on Russian roads as there's always something interesting to be captured on film by the myriad of dashboard-moun... -
Photo: A. Futterer, Holyland Exhibition, 1960. The Paramount Pest Control building was one of the few to survive the eminent domain action ...
No comments:
Post a Comment