The Phoenix Electric Vehicle Gets 100 Miles Per Charge
As I’ve mentioned before, the electric vehicle is beginning to show up everywhere. Rising from the ashes of our oil woes is Phoenix Motors. (www.phoenixmotorcars.com) Phoenix has partnered with Altairnano to use their innovative lithium-titanate batteries (you can see the blog
A Safe Explosion and Fire Proof Lithium-Ion Battery to read more about it) in order to bring to us the Phoenix SUT and SUV.
Both of these vehicles are all electric and get a bit over 100 miles per charge and can reach highway speeds up to 95mph. Looks like they’re working on increased capacity batteries in order to hit the 200 mile range in 2009. One thing that I find very interesting is the fact that it can recharge the batteries in 10 minutes with an off-board 250kW battery charger. Otherwise you’re looking around 5 hours with the built-in 6.6kW charger. I would assume that the 250kW charger is more for fleet operations, I can imagine the spike on your electric bill if you’re juicing up a few of these a day.
On a more practical sense are we going to need power outlets in our parking garages at work in order to have a fully charged car to run and do errands after work? Is this a new can of worms that we will soon be tackling? The new electric power/parking meter? Only time will tell…
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Ken