ELECTRIC VEHICLES - Battery Capacity and Range
Battery technology is at the heart of EV development. Unlike gasoline, that is quantified only through gallons or liters, three parameters directly affect the electricity that gets into the batteries: voltage, intensity and the number of phases. Playing with those parameters will allow to put more or less power into the car, having to wait more or less to charge it, beign able to go further or not with the car.
A normal EV can nowadays drive 100 miles (160 km) on a single charge. At home, with a normal plug (230 Volts, 16Amps, i.e. 3.68 kw), this means charging the whole battery in slightly more than 6 hours. However, the normal user won't need to recharge the whole battery every night, but simply adding the needed kwh used during the day.
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