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Chainwright
Jan 02, 2019Explorer
Reisender wrote:
There is a standard that all electric vehicles use for level 1 and 2 charging. It is J1772 standard and every electric vehicle in production today uses it. Some like Tesla use a physical adapter but the standard is all the same.
Level 3 is a different story but there are only three standards presently. Tesla (open to all manufacturers, CCS and Chademo.
The average North American EV uses less than 10 KWH per day. Although some grid upgrading will be required this is not expected to be a big challenge by most utilities. Personally our household is close to about 6 KWH per vehicle and we have two vehicles. We are probably below the average. An additional 20 amp 240 volt circuit per household is more than enough to fill the requirement of the average household. We do half of our charging from a 120 volt 12 amp circuit.
Chargers,adapters. In the grand scheme of things aren't those easy fixes? I mean in the computer world we've had soooo many adapter and port changes. Why can't a car come furnished with 2-4 adapters/ports/plugs? Just asking.
UK has over 16500 charging stations, France has 23000 public charging stations, Germany 13500, Italy 2000, Demmark 2060+, Netherlands 122000, and so on. If we are truly in the top 5 for technology and the "greatest" nation in the world, Then we too can do this. If they have the technology, then so do we. If it can work for them it can work here too. No one is saying this has to happen in the next 2-3 yrs, or all at once. Many Gas stations have room for 5-20 recharging stations. Get a good mix going. Gas pumps plus recharging stations. Conservatively, In 7-10 yrs we may see our first RV that can do 300-350. One of the members here, even sent a link about the Rivian EV Truck that was at the car show in 2018; but surprisingly no comments from the nay sayers.
Reisender thanks for looking at the glass half full. Alles gute auf die naechste reise.
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