Nissan and BMW announced today a welcome deal to build dual-protocol fast charging at 120 locations across 19 states. This is another sign of cooperation between two main factions of the competition to establish the dominant fast charging protocol. For the last five years, a big question dogging the electric vehicle…
Audi seems to have a clue — for long range electric cars to succeed, there must be a widespread fast charging network offering charging rates well above 100 kiloWatts. Tesla Motors has demonstrated with its Supercharger network that the combination of 70 kiloWatt-hours or more energy, and 120 kiloWatt charging,…
An announcement today from Audi tells us that the German automakers are, through the Charging Interface Initiative e.V. (CharIN), planning to extend the Combo Charging System to support 150 kiloWatt charging rates. This jibes with plans from Audi, Porsche, and others, to begin selling electric cars with 95 kiloWatt-hour or more…
Poking around the Plugshare & ChargePoint maps it’s clear that a long-awaited West Coast inter-city deployment of fast charging stations has begun. Last January, ChargePoint, BMW and Volkswagen jointly announced a project to deploy two strings of fast charging stations, one on the West Coast the other on the East Coast.…
Today two different car makers announced expansion of their electric vehicle charging station programs. We applaud any increase in charging station deployments, because there is a crying need to switch to electric drive, and more charging stations is an essential necessary step. However, the charging stations aren’t being deployed for public use, but for…
The BRUSA NLG6 is a dual mode charger for electric cars that supports 3.3 kilowatt single phase AC or 22 kilowatt three phase AC charging. The latter mode is what allows BRUSA to call it a “Fast Charger”. The unit is small enough to be installed on-board an electric car,…
Over the next few years we’ll see more electric cars with 200+ miles electric driving range. In a 200 mile range EV, the 50 kiloWatt rate we now call “fast charging” will seem slow. The 200+ miles range will require 60 kiloWatt-hours of electricity storage, requiring a 1+ hour recharging…
SAE J2836 Communication Task Force – Rich Scholer, Ford Motor Company A presentation in 2008 going over decisioning between conductive charging (J1772) and inductive charging (J1773) as well as changes in the charging connector. J1772 won out over the inductive charging – during the EV Mandate Era there were competing…
Using motor windings as part of the charging circuit is an old idea. But with the need to develop a fast charging system, many are looking at the idea again. The ideal is for electric cars to recharge in a few minutes, but that’s not practically affordable. The observation is…
Medium-voltage Intelligent Universal Transformer based DC fast charging development and demonstration – EPRI EPRI has recently demonstrated a proof-of-concept, medium voltage, Intelligent Universal Transformer (IUTTM) with fast charging capability in the latest prototype design. As this overview explains, EPRI believes that a medium voltage fast charging system could result in…
May 2013 Roadmap for the standardization of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and the electric vehicle service provider business. This is an ongoing living document used by ANSI to coordinate standardization work between all the companies in the electric vehicle service provider space. These companies include component makers (Eaton, Schneider Electric,…
ChargePoint recent announcement of available two DC Fast Charge stations indicates they’re preparing for the fast charging future. With the upcoming wave of 200+ mile range electric cars – appearing to start in 2016-2017-2018 if currently announced plans work out – public fast charging infrastructure is a BIG NEED. (On a 60 kWh…
Robert Llewellyn drives from Oslo to London in an electric car – this is a proper loooooooong road trip.
This guy in Holland did what I’d wanted to do last year, add a CHAdeMO port to his DIY conversion EV. We see here a VW Bus (I had a Karmann Ghia) that’s been converted to electric drive (as has been done with many other VW bus’s). Working with the Orion…
