SWORDER
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I was watching this show called "Naked and Afraid" the other night and one of the contestants found, killed, and eventually ate an electric eel. The show's narrator mentioned that the eel generates 600 volts of electricity and some eels can generate up to 1000 volts. So presumably there are eels out in the wild that can generate 800 volts, or could be trained to do so. Now as it turns out, the Taycan expects to receive 800 volts when it charges and it got me to thinking...
If one were to gather up like maybe ten or twenty electric eels and train them to output 800 volts, how long would it take the group of them to fully charge a Porsche Taycan? What kind of machinery would be required to convert eel-generated current into something an EV could use, and what would be the rate of charge (in kW per eel)? Would the cost of feeding the eels over their lifetime exceed the value of the electricity they produce?
If one were to gather up like maybe ten or twenty electric eels and train them to output 800 volts, how long would it take the group of them to fully charge a Porsche Taycan? What kind of machinery would be required to convert eel-generated current into something an EV could use, and what would be the rate of charge (in kW per eel)? Would the cost of feeding the eels over their lifetime exceed the value of the electricity they produce?
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