shingadaddy
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FYI for all the battery heads!
FYI for all the battery heads!
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The only sensible option would be to use a high voltage.Hope it's true!
I find it hard to believe you could charge a car battery in 5 minutes. Dumping 180KW into anything for five minutes seems like it would kablooey and *WHUMPH* or BOOM! followed by "OMG!! TEH CAR SPLODED!"
I think the station would need a 10kV feed running it from 400V three phase would be impractical.
Yes, I missed out the comma.
The UK electrical distribution system is slightly different than yours. A large substation transformer is normally used to power a housing estate, industrial block a small village. Pole mounted transformers are normally only used to supply remote rural areas.
Could work at 600V... but it's 300A (big freaking huge cables and buss bars) and would be pulling as much power as a city block. I imagine the "gas station" would have to have a temporary power source to handle these five-minute peaks.
I have an idea for how to deal with that - replace the big underground gas tanks with big underground flywheels. Flywheels slowly spin up to peak speed to keep the average draw off the grid reasonably low, but can move a massive amount of power quickly when you charge your car.