The Nissan Leaf has a 3.3 kw 240v charger, and uses about 300 wh/mile. So it also charges at 10 miles/hour.
I really, really hope Brammo adds a J1772 connector and a 2-3 kw charger while they're adding IET. Along those lines, I also wish they would be more communicative with their would-be customers. I think most of us would be fine with waiting another year if they're adding IET and J1772 .. but we'd like to know what's going on!
J1772 was not a sure thing 2-3 years ago when they were designing the Empulse, but it has since become the dominant standard in the US. Packaging aside, there's no strategic reason to not support J1772. Even if they only can fit a 2-3 kw charger in the Empulse, that would still allow a fairly gentle 0.2C-0.5C charge while giving a substantially faster (in mph) charge rate than allowed by cars.
I for one wouldn't mind waiting a little more to get the J1772 on the empulse, gives me time to build up my savings again after spending a small fortune remodeling my house...
That being said, does anyone here know how effective that could be compared to a regular charger @ 110?
if 110 gives us 10 miles an hour, how much could one potentially get @ 220?
come to think of it, 10 miles would be more than enough to get off the road and plug into a wall, at least for me...
But as the guy from Renault said in a press conference a while ago, we just have to be aware of how far we can go...
How often do you guys really run out of gas in your regular vehicles?
I have NEVER run out of gas on the roads. Sure that's prolly because I've found the closest gas station when I was low...
We'd just have to charge every night and we should be fine on most days...
The other thing is, if it takes them an hour to charge your bike to give you 10 miles of juice, they might as well tow you a few miles, so you're off the road and near a charge... probably be quicker that way wouldn't it? I'm sure AAA would rather have their trucks doing something else in the time they saved...
