A Supercharging Milestone

Re:A Supercharging Milestone by ChuckMcM on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:42PM (#8017165)

Nice, 168K gallons a month is 5600 a day (assuming 30 day months) or 295 barrels of oil per day [1]. You could supply the grid with the equivalent MW used by the entire super charging network with one solar thermal plant [2]

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=24&t=10

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility -- had a look at this over the 4th of July weekend, its a pretty neat facility.

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Re:A Supercharging Milestone by plorg on Thursday July 10, 2014 @05:44PM (#8017538)

If I'm reading the figure in the article correctly, 1GWh/month of electricity works out to something like 1.34 MW average load. That much electricity could be supplied by a total of three (1.5MW nameplate) utility-scale wind turbines, at least if you assume the capacity factor (0.3-0.35) seen in the upper midwest.

Put differently, that is about 1/10 of the average electricity consumption of the (midwestern, state) university where I studied.

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Re:A Supercharging Milestone by ChuckMcM on Thursday July 10, 2014 @09:17PM (#8018393)

They edited it, it used to say it had produced a 1 GWh to date from all chargers. I wonder if they took that out because it was wrong or because it didn't seem impressive enough?

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