[ausev] Opportunity charging...

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>From the PHIL website, the home compressor uses 800 watts. So a fill-up uses 12.8kW? 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Carey King <careyking1 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 14, 2008 9:05 AM
>To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion <ausev at austinev.org>
>Subject: Re: [ausev] Opportunity charging...
>
>I'd say if someone talks to Austin Energy that they need to promote the 
>city charging concept as advancing the "smart grid" that they are 
>helping to promote. Their program includes allowing companies with smart 
>grid technologies (i.e. a charging station that measures how much 
>electricity goes into EVs, or logs it for EV owners and connects it to 
>their account, etc.) to test their products within Austin Energy's area.
>Carey
>
>Chris Robison wrote:
>> 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
>>
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