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To: Tom Hoff who wrote (2389)	9/29/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Futurist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

What is a "car port"?

To: Tom Hoff who wrote (2389)	10/1/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: Don Devlin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8393

The following is an excerpt from a post to the EV1 club list: A solar-powered EV charging station similar to the one at SCAQMD was opened today at the San Diego County Administrative building. I attended the noontime festivities. The site is at the north edge of the parking lot. For detailed instructions on how to find it, see the entry in my San Diego (EV) Charger list: people.qualcomm.com It consists of a canopy with the solar array that covers six parking spaces. Each pair of spots has a pedestal magnecharger and a pedestal AVCO conductive charger, for a total of three of each type of charger. The thin-film amorphous silicon array was made by Uni-Solar. The array is grid tied through a Trace inverter. According to Unisolar's handout drawing, the port is 56' wide and 18.25' deep. According to the placards near the inverter, the nominal array output is 76A @ 66V, or about 5kW. Assuming that figure is for a solar insolation of 1kW/m^2, that works out to a rather disappointing 5% efficiency. I believe that's typical for amorphous silicon..................