Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard 373
Overly Critical Guy writes "Auto makers are launching a universal EV charger that charges an electric vehicle in 15 to 20 minutes. The standard, called Combined Charging System, has been approved by the Society of Automotive Engineers and ACEA, the European association of vehicle manufacturers, as the standard for fast-charging electric vehicles."
Pit stop (Score:4, Funny)
With my prostrate, it takes me about that long to pee anyway, so it's good to see progress is being made.
Re:Define "charges" (Score:2, Funny)
It means the batteries will universally charge you for a new expensive replacement in 1.5 to 2 years deppending on how often you drive. Or something like that.
Re:Define "charges" (Score:3, Funny)
...it is even possible to do it manually (using a gas canister) if car ran out of gas before you reached the station.
Do you have a citation for that assertion or are you just making that up?
Micro USB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Define "charges" (Score:5, Funny)
...it is even possible to do it manually (using a gas canister) if car ran out of gas before you reached the station.
Do you have a citation for that assertion or are you just making that up?
You want a citation for "carrying a spare gallon of fuel in a fuel can in the trunk"?
Jesus. What are you, a wikipedia editor?
Re:Define "charges" (Score:5, Funny)
> We will see drunks piss on a cable, then their next of kin sue the station and everyone else upstream.
But at very least, that will gain us a number of youtube moments.
Re:Define "charges" (Score:5, Funny)
Unless your piss can speak binary using the right protocol and sending the right responses up the line, there will be no power to harm you.
Luxury. When I was a lad, we had to flatten our own dried feces and perforate it into punched cards to mail to the local petroleum distillery, and two to three weeks later a salesman would come out to beat us with a rubber hose -- if we were lucky.