On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:39:21 -0700 (PDT), harry
wrote:

On Thursday, 26 July 2018 08:55:43 UTC+1, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:41:11 -0700 (PDT), harry
wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:04:23 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 25/07/2018 18:14, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:40:23 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 25/07/2018 16:19, harry wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 23:24:21 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 24/07/2018 19:16, ARW wrote:
On 24/07/2018 11:56, John Rumm wrote:
On 24/07/2018 06:56, harry wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:39:05 UTC+1, John Rumm* wrote:


Any practical[1] mainstream EV could only be charged to a tiny
fraction of its capacity from 13A overnight.


[1] i.e. not the virtue signalling toy ones like yours.

-- Cheers,

John.

Drivel. As usual you are "expert" on something you have zero
knowledge and experience of.

Its simple arithmetic harry. 13A @ 240V for 8H is ~25kWh - about the
same energy content as that contained in 5L of petrol.

No-one runs their electric car to depletion. Or anywhere near.

You say that like its a good thing!

While its understandable, since the pain of actually running out of
power is considerable, it means even less of the energy stored is
available for use. Less of a problem if you have "loads" in the first
place, but more difficult when you need all the range you can get.


You only need a gallon of batteries to get it going again don't you?

I can see a market for some kind of portable power bank for getting a EV
to the nearest charging point... kind of like the power banks for your
phone.


We have them.
It's called a tow truck.


And the future ones will not have tow ropes but extension leads.


Connected to where?


Probably to some sort of electrical power source on the recovery vehicle
would be my best guess.

And what would that be?

I would expect an additional, extra large battery in the back - same
principle as a mobile phone powerbank.

Clearly you never thought that through.

You could be right. Maybe someone knowledgeable could enlighten us.