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…
Tesla Motors electric cars use a proprietary charging plug. Adapters are available from Tesla Motors allowing owners of their cars to use public charging stations built with standard charging plugs (J1772, Mennekes, CHAdeMO). Tesla Motors is also deploying charging stations, both fast charging and destination charging, to locations around the…
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.…
We’re now at the electric vehicle adoption stage where people are trying all kinds of crazy things. In this case, a South Africa automotive news site has posted this video giving extremely bad advice for apartment dwellers to charge their electric car. The tactic they recommend, lowering an extension cable out…
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…
I’m learning about Bitcoin and now know that it’s not a piece of techno-fluff that won’t amount to anything. It has serious technical depth, and the capability of transforming the monetary system. Maybe. One possibility is to solve for the supposed necessity of charging station networks. If applied correctly, Bitcoin based charging…
As if the battle between CHADEMO and the SAE J1772 committee weren’t bad enough for the cause of DC Fast Charging for electric cars – the Chinese have their own system being developed. The following comes from: http://en.winston-battery.com/index.php/products/ev-charge-station/item/ev-charge-station?category_id=181 Winston Battery is sort of the successor company to ThunderSky, except this…
Those of us who live in multi-unit-dwellings (apartment, townhouse, or condo complexes) face a problem when owning an electric car: Every assumes electric car owners own a home, and therefore can charge at home because they have good control over their electricity supply. That’s not always true, and the fact…
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…
A slide deck from June 28, 2012, covering this agenda: NREL Electric Vehicle Grid Integration (EVGI) Background SPIDERS and Military Microgrids Proposed Messaging for bi-directional vehicle charging (V2x) Power Line Communications (PLC) Hardware Implementation Lessons Learned Next Steps Original: http://mydocs.epri.com/docs/PublicMeetingMaterials/0712/D2-4.pdf
The electric vehicle (EV) market is experiencing a resurgence with traditional automakers recognizing the need to move into this market. As a result, we are in a moment of exciting transition in which consumers now have a number of EV options to consider. While EVs such as the Chevrolet Volt, the Nissan…
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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…
