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SSC Ultimate Aero EV Further Details Revealed Aluraeo is absolutely right to question the fast charge capabilities of a 110v outlet. Standard outlets are rated at 15 amps. If you pull max current for 10 minutes, you will put 275 watt-hours (volts x amps x hours) of energy into the battery. That equates to about a mile of very conservative driving range in a very light electric vehicle (EV). The Aero would burn that much energy in 100 yards at full acceleration. This is one of the unfortunate, almost criminal, problems those of us in the EV industry have to deal with... wild claims and unimaginable misinformation. Makes it almost impossible to educate and promote the alternative energy source we have available for transportation 24/7, coast to coast, right now, today. Electricity. No - current battery technology will not allow you to have supercar performance in an EV for 200 miles (have you seen the changes in Tesla's claims?) No - long cross-country trips are not practical in a pure EV today. No - simple household of office circuits will not allow you to recharge in minutes. That oughta give the nay-sayers enough ammo for now! What you CAN DO with an EV today is commute anywhere from 40 to 100 miles on a charge, depending on battery chemistry and size, and recharge it overnight. Double the range figures if you have the opportunity to charge at work. For the average driver, that accounts for 90% of your driving needs... going to work, shopping, going to dinner/movies, dropping the kids at soccer, visiting friends on the weekends, etc. And, you do all that at less than half the cost compared to a petroleum powered car. Most families own more than one car. So keep one gas-burner for the rare times you need the range and make the other electric. You'll reach for the EV keys 9 times more often than the keys to the dinosaur-burner. I can already hear it. "Yeah, but I want one car that'll do everything... go to work, take me to the Hamptons for summer vacation, AND make me feel like a rock star when I stand on the pedal!!!" If you can afford an Aero, you can easily afford an EV as a "second" car (even though you'll drive it more than the "male enhancement device"). Oh, yeah... hydrogen as the "fuel of the future." We're talking distant future. At the moment, we have no ready, economical source of hydrogen and no distribution infrastructure. We are at least a decade away. Once again, we DO have a nation-wide electrical grid that produces excess energy during off-peak hours... at night. The technology exists today to tap into that source in a practical way to serve a large portion of our transportation needs. So go ahead and wait for the fuel of tomorrow... I'll be spending a third on my fuel and saving on maintenance and registration as well.