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The 161mph $129,000 Fisker EMotion:
Henrik Fisker's new electric car project is finally here, unveiled in full at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Get past those show-stopping ingress points however, and you find something that'll give a certain electric car company something to chew on...
We must first discuss the looks. Henrik – famously responsible for the design of the Aston Martin Vantage and BMW Z8 – clearly hasn't lost his touch. There are elements of his former hybrid motor, the Karma, and everything has been sculpted in the name of the tech underneath.
It's built from carbon fibre and aluminium, and features elements designed around the LiDARs dotted at the front and rear of the car. The door handles are flush, operated via your smartphone. It's big, too: 5m in length and 1.4m in height, around the size of a BMW 5 Series. The wheels are similarly huge: 24s as standard, on low rolling-resistance Pirellis.
Sulky Dutch model not included with the base model.
Previously:
Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort
Fisker Automotive Comes Back Under New Name, Plans to Launch Electric Car
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:30AM (3 children)
From here: http://www.ges-highvoltage.com/redakteur/EN/downloads/GES_catalog_series-100_hv-connectors.pdf [ges-highvoltage.com] the B155 connector pair should handle our needs, (50kV, 80A) and the connector is just a bit over 4cm in diameter - but, again, doesn't look like something I'd use for a vehicle charger, and just the thought of 2.1MW of power on tap would make me a little woozy while handling the connectors...
Speaking of spike load on the electrical grid - a large wind turbine only outputs about 1MW when it's crankin', just picture a neighborhood of 1000 homes, everyone getting home between 5:45 and 6pm, plugging in for a quick charge...
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(Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:10AM (2 children)
Two things:
- They said "under one minute", not five minutes, so your 2.1MW is generous.
It should be, using the 175kWh, at least 10.5MW.
50kV/80A only gives you 4MW (minus losses and margin), so you need three of those.
- Modern big wind turbines are in the 2-5MW range, newer really big ones 10MW, and I read about 15MW ones coming up (offshore?). You still probably want supercapacitors somewhere if you're gonna suddenly plug 10MW, which is more than a high-speed train.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 11 2018, @04:01AM
Under one minute, damn - I must have just blocked that out, yeah, 11+MW is out there, like 250 homes all cranking their heat, appliances, and incandescent light bulbs at max output. So, I suppose a 175kWh super-cap could charge up for 4 hours on your house feed then zap your car full in 60 seconds? Now we're also talking about over 200kV @ ~55A, striking plasma arcs at nearly 8", and there's not a connector in the catalog for that (though there are some that will do half that power...)
Can you picture a "normal" fueling station for this scheme? Of course, if these imaginary batteries exist, then the fueling station can have a bank of them underground, but I'd hate to be anywhere around if all that energy decided to convert to heat in less than a minute....
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 20 2018, @03:28AM
By the way, 500 miles range is still costing 175kWh ~$20 in electricity, in my neighborhood at least. Now, that might be 3x better than gasoline lately, but it's hardly free.
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