Electric cars: Will the power fail? | StarTribune.com
Neighborhood blackout alert: The first Nissan and GM electric cars can draw 3,300 watts when plugged in, and the Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car with a huge battery, can draw 16,800 watts.
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When plugged into a standard 120-volt socket, the electric car will draw 1,500 watts. By comparison, a medium-sized air conditioner or a countertop microwave oven will draw about 1,000 watts.
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But the car can be charged faster, and therefore draw more power, when plugged into a home charging station. The first Leafs and Volts can draw 3,300 watts, and both carmakers may boost that to 6,600 watts soon. The Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car with a huge battery, can draw 16,800 watts. That's the equivalent of 280 60-watt light bulbs. [So why won't the poor folks be allowed to read by the light of a single non-crappy 60-watt light bulb?]
A modest home in the San Francisco Bay area that doesn't need air conditioning might draw 3,000 watts at most.
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Energy saving is pointless. We need to become independent of foreign oil imports. Construct a new nuclear plant every 3 weeks (the rate it was in the eighties and seventies) then we can have all the incandescent lightbulbs, all the electric heating, all the electric cars we want.
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