(Auto) How is recharging electric cars related to potato chips?

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One of the great problems of electric cars, in addition to autonomy, is the need for a special infrastructure to be able to recharge. In many parts of the world, the short distance between cities facilitates the issue, but in cases like Australia (or in many areas of our country) it is not only difficult to find a charger for electric cars, but even a simple electrical connection.

The largest country in Oceania has extensive deserts, with very little traveled roads where the necessary investment to provide power lines and recharging systems suitable for electric vehicles is not yet justified. For this reason, a retired engineer named Jon Edwards has created Biofil, a system that uses an electric generator that works with the edible oils that the gastronomic companies in the area used to fry potatoes. 

The installation of three charging points with the Biofil system allowed electric car users to travel for the first time the route that connects Western Australia with South Australia, a territory of 200,000 km² that crosses the Nullarbor desert.

Edwards invested more than €250,000 in developing this technology and building the charging devices. In the Caiguna restaurant, which is halfway there and where about 55 liters of frying oil is produced per week, which is used to feed the loader.

As Edwards himself explains, to complete a 50kWh charge, 18 liters of oil are needed, but most charges are over 25kWh, that is, about 9 liters of used oil. With what the kitchen of the restaurant that supplies the oil produces, about 6 quick recharges can be generated per week, which seems little, but is actually enough since the traffic of electric cars is almost nil, something that may change from now on.

Volvo knew how to take advantage of this and as part of the launch of the Polestar 2 EV in Australia, the Swedish brand made a unit travel this desert route, to travel 786 km from the Caiguna charging point to Souther Cross, stopping at Balladonia, Norseman and Kalgoorlie. The Biofil station charged Polestar 2's 78 kWh batteries to 80% in just one hour so that it could continue the journey, which was a success.
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