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What is your City doing to move towards sustainable transportation and Electric Vehicles Infrastructure (EVI) roll out and development?
While Mass Transit within cities helps, it does not sufficiently make people move back into cities from 'Bedroom Communities' and other smaller Commuter points.
Other ways Travel and Transportation Efficiency can be encouraged, is to Drive Electric, and Car Pooling by Electric Vehicle is even more Efficient!
Following is a Series of Questions that would be great to have answers for in your presentation!
Each Location with Level 3 DC Quick Charging Should have co-located at least 2 Level 2 Chargers, with at least one of them a High Power Charging Station, to support Vehicles that can not use the DC Quick Charger, but can use a high powered AC Level 2 Charging Station for Supplying its Charge.
Some Important Designations, Descriptions, Instructions, and Nomenclature, can be found in these articles:
Electric vehicle Charging 101.
As any enthusiast, or anyone tracking the automotive industry, can see, electric vehicles (EV's) are inevitably
going to be a way of life in the near future. The best evidence of this, besides almost every major manufacturer
developing an electric car, is the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard put into place by the Obama
Administration.
By 2025 every new vehicle sold in the United States will need to get at least 54.5 mpg. Plug-in hybrid EV's and EV's operate on batteries that need to be charged periodically. Because of the inevitability of the EV, it is important to understand how to charge or “fuel” them.
Today, level three chargers are expensive but they can also charge an EV with incredible speed, sometimes in 15 minutes. Level three chargers use a direct current, extremely high voltage and amperage. The most common versions range from 40kW to 50kW, with Tesla's own delivering up to 120 kW.
Review of Battery Charge Topologies, Charging Power Levels and Infrastructure for
Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles.
In the US, an official domestic goal of putting one million EV's on the road by 2015 has been established, and
public policies to encourage electrification have been implemented by governments at all levels.
The need for recharging in the community and on highways—preferably fast charging—is essential for mass commercialization.
Planning for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: A
Toolkit.
There are Four Main Steps involved in planning for a network of EV Charging Station infrastructure in your
community:
1 - Gaining Council Support
2 - Completing an EV Charging Infrastructure Plan
3 - Plan Implementation
4 - Monitoring and Evaluation (which feeds back to the step 2)
What are the environmental and climate action benefits of EV's?*
Increased deployment of
EV's in your community can provide several environmental and climate action benefits, including:
* 100% reduction in volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide emissions
* Almost 100% reduction in carbon emissions in areas powered by hydro electricity
* 75% reduction in sulfur oxide emissions
* 65% reduction in nitrous oxide emissions
* 31% reduction particulate matter emissions
Public Charging Infrastructure in Canada.
As noted in the table, DC Fast Charging is available on some of the EV's coming to Canada. The current vehicles
comply with the CHAdeMO standard. CHAdeMO is a quick charging method, including a connector and communication
protocol that is, in essence, a DC Fast Charge architecture.
Some of the most commonly considered objectives include: