Green Car Congress

April 1, 2009. 

Also, meaningful amounts of money are now being invested in green car technology, with President Obama pledging $2.4 billion for vehicle battery and plug-in electric vehicle development....

Tesla, the newest entry by the struggling Silicon Valley car start up comes with a $US49,900 price tag, that's after a $US7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles.... If things go according to plan and I am confident that they will, then the Department of Energy will approve a $US350 million loan for the capitol required for the manufacturing of the Model S,' Mr. Musk said.....

Aerovironment, one of the leading makers off fast charging systems, offers a version of their PossiCharge fast charging system that delivers 600amps DC, the same amount of current as the maximum available to three single family homes. If we look at a 120V system then we can push 120 * 600 = 72000 or 72KWHrs for a one hour charge. That’s equivalent to pushing 12KWHrs into the batteries in a 10 minute period so, assuming the battery pack to take 600amps it would be possible to charge this pack in about 5 minutes with the PossiCharger..... 

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