The history of EV charging in 2022 revolved around DC fast charging and how to get more stations so other people can charge their EVs in 30 to 40 minutes, and maybe just 10 minutes in the future. The Inflation Reduction Act and other laws have allocated huge subsidies to inspire the installation of such tariffs in cities and on rural roads. In fact, to change the world from gasoline to electric vehicles, it will have to be simple to rate those vehicles. They think in terms of “filling,” where a driving force drives until its “tank” is low, then looks for a place to refuel, does so, and continues on its way.
Thinking about gasoline is the wrong way to think about electric cars, yet we’ve been thinking this way for a century, so it’s hard to change. Charging in cities. As fast charging has its usefulness, we are not going to ban it – especially on motorways between towns – but if we do not eliminate the idea of gas, we will move to the electric car in the wrong direction; A way that is less convenient and takes longer and costs more to get started. If we put our government’s budget and policy on fast charging, we will put them in the wrong position and sacrifice bigger plans.
Fast charging still makes sense for road trips, of course, and for heavy-duty fleet vehicles. It has also become the problematic workaround for other people who can’t access the amazing slow loading approach. worry too much.
“EV thinking” is different. It is based on the fact that almost all cars are parked 90% or more of the day. If cars can slow down the charging speed even a small part of this, they can get all the fare they want almost all the time. Park for long periods of time. The fare does not delay the driver’s day, as it happens while the car remains parked anyway. It’s also smoother on battery. Slow-charging appliances are also much less expensive than fast-charging appliances and, as a result, overall charging costs are much lower. load savings that are one of the wonderful benefits of electric vehicles).
In the world of electric vehicle ideas, it seeks to recharge a decent fraction of the city’s parking spaces. You want to make sure most cars spend a few hours a day parked in one of those spaces. (Today, those are the spaces used from midnight to 3 p. m. m. In the future, those will be the spaces used from 9 a. m. Until 3 p. La most cars spend a large part of their time in the driver’s cab and 8 to 9 hours a day at work or in the parking lot.
For most people who own a home, this is already settled. There is electric power and those other people pay between $200 and $1,000, once according to the house, to install the charging. (Some face a much higher cost, discussed below. )
Of course, many other people don’t own their parking area, and while they may also park at work, they don’t control their employer. This includes tenants and even many condo owners. This also includes other people who don’t have a stand and park on the street. Today, the initial charging of electric cars helps keep their adoption low and as such, buyers are wealthy enough for others to buy them, but still, there are already enough buyers who don’t own room for DC fast. charging to grow in cities.
If public policy and money are to make EV charging infrastructure plentiful, the best position to do so is in parking spaces used by others who don’t own their own space. One of the reasons we didn’t opt for this solution is that those spaces are privately owned, intended for a single person. When it comes to policies and subsidies, it is much more natural to believe that they apply to chargers that are public to be acquired and used by many other people. We are involved in having government money used to subsidize apartment and workplace owners.
In addition, the cost of installing EVSE (which is the technical call for an AC charging interface, since it does not have a “charger”) can sometimes be much higher. An EVSE is an incredibly undeniable device that does almost nothing. a plug, cables, an existing top relay and a small microcontroller. Tesla sells its very good EVSE cell phone for $200, and others from Asia in this diversity of prices fit many. Many other people are being pushed into much more expensive equipment that charges between $500 and $700, even in homes, and gadgets sold for ad installation in parking masses can easily amount to thousands. They justify this charge by being a little more physically powerful for public use and having unnecessary things like credit card terminals and screens like fuel pumps. Thinking. (Newer cars will soon take care of computer authentication and billing via charging cable, as Tesla has done. )
These solar chargers are not connected to the grid, which is a waste, but the structure and matrix. . . [ ] Permits and wiring can be so expensive it makes sense
Unfortunately, those thousand-dollar sets don’t seem that expensive because of the burden of two other things: high-current external wiring, with trenching and pouring concrete, and worst of all, high-end rents and contractors, and the false trust that installing many charging stations requires upgrading a building’s electrical service and the ability to supply full power to stay on it. time. Prices can be so high that a company sells a standalone solar-powered unit that can be deposited in a parking area via a tray without permission or construction, and despite all the losses from off-grid solar, it still exceeds the value of the construction.
There are several steps that can be taken to reduce the cost of installing charging where other people park. These come with lower-cost EVSE and safe but appropriate modifications to electrical codes to reduce costs and maintain good enough security. EVSEs are another of the old. -Appliances of the world and we have smart pc to manage currents and control temperatures.
Multi-unit smart charging stations configured according to the existing percentage among charging cars. Since most cars only need an average of 90 minutes at 7kW, but are regularly parked for 10 hours at night and 8 hours at work/job sites, you don’t need 7kW at the station. Even so, many electricians will calculate that because charging stations can supply a giant amount, such as 40 kW, it is necessary to increase the service to the building by at least 40 kW to deal with the building at full force. and all cars charging at the same time. In reality, the maximum houses and buildings are not near their maximum maximum rated force absorption of the time, and never at dusk. New and smarter charging technologies can measure the force input of other lots on your site and cause certain cars to never consume enough to drive the overall charge over their rated limit. Therefore, buildings can install at most one charging station for each EV owner without expanding the building’s electrical service, which saves a lot of money. (Disclosure: Although I have advocated such approaches for many years, I recently invested in a company that makes such technology. )
It is much less difficult to push the installation of electric vehicle charging wiring in all new buildings and suitable parking lots. It is much less difficult and less expensive to make this structure and does not even require additional permits.
If the concept of not having fast charging in cities sounds strange, you may not know what Tesla’s original design was, when they built it it was and still is by far the most productive fast-charging network. The original network had no chargers in the villages, and when they first added them, they were part of the strength of rural porters. That changed, however, Tesla’s plan was to use the chargers only on road trips, wherever he wanted them.
Some other people park on the street. In fact, there are answers for the street, especially when there are already electric power poles and overhead power lines to capture. Companies are now designing EVSEs that are mounted on power and lighting poles, with a charging cable hanging around. These are as simple as any estructura. es necessary in many cases and nutrition can be good. This is not the case, and renovating some old streets is challenging. If those drivers can’t find a parking spot with charging, they may end up with fast charging or wait to get an electric car.
Long before gasoline-powered car sales are expected to end in 2035 in some states, cars will have fundamental autonomous driving capabilities. Less difficult challenge to make a car drive on quiet streets at lower speeds, especially at night. time. It’s especially simple at night: one of the reasons Cruise’s first step was to implement robotaxi service in San Jose only at night.
The ideal car, from a cargo point of view, is one that magically fills up and you don’t even know how it does it. Your car and your phone will know your behavior and can guess when it makes sense to drive away to recharge. Some drivers wishing to take advantage of this might explicitly say that it will be a few hours before the vehicle is needed back, a small charge compared to having to refuel or even refuel a vehicle. If those drivers need the car sooner, they may have to sign it up 5-10 minutes in advance. To serve those cars, charging only needs to be installed where it is cheap, or the cars can use the extra capacity on work masses that sit idle at night. The big question is how they connect. At first, robocar mass charging might have a human attendant, like a full-service fuel station. Later, the undisputed robotic cats can do the job when the car is placed in exactly the right position. In the long run, a new charging socket can also be designed to be placed on the front, rear or rear of a car (most today are on the side), allowing the car to go through all the movements necessary to plug in
As noted, fast charging is for off-town road trips and for fleets with cars running around the clock. While we don’t ban fast charging, what’s the most productive way to replace mindset?
But also think about what to do:
Of course, none of those subsidies or regulations would be if gas burners had to pay for the damage caused by the pollutants (especially particulates) of those fuels. Instead, lately we are subsidizing oil and gas. In this situation, the charge of burning the gas or diesel would only manufacture such cars with which they have money, as well as fuel to burn and maximum buyers would be transferred to electric power without being asked, at least in places without coal networks. They would then ask that their rental of houses and condos be billed.