[ausev] Opportunity charging...

[Chris Robison]

Brian Lasseter wrote:

> On a brief, and mostly off-topic note, I was at the Arboretum REI this
> past Saturday, and there was a lady in front of the store from Texas
> Natural Gas hawking the Honda Civic GX NGV.   The gas company is
> offering $3000 to anyone who purchases a Natural Gas powered car.  She
> seemed strangely interested and terrified when I told her about my
> electric car and all the other electric car work that is going on in
> Austin.
>      http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2005/04/21/045573.html
>      http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/
> 
> I laughed when she told me that it took 16 hours to fill the 8 gallon
> CNG tank on the Honda Civic GX NGV from the Phill home refueling
> station... Honda also cleverly installed the CNG tank to take up
> 2/3rds of the trunk.

She was at the UT Sustainable Business Expo as well (at least, I'm 
assuming it was the same person).

What I'm wondering is how many watt-hours of electricity is used during 
that 16 hours by the "Phill" compressing unit, as the car is being refueled?

I'd have gone over to talk to her about it, but I didn't really have an 
opportunity and I also didn't want to be asking as an obvious AustinEV 
representative, making the questions feel awkward and competitive.


   --chris