Re: Preparing for electric cars on site
From: Catya Belfer (catyapobox.com)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:40:02 -0800 (PST)
I think charging two cars regularly with one cable would be pretty doable,
but yeah - 12 would be nuts.

     - cat

Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Jerry McIntire <jerry.mcintire [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Tom, theoretically it's possible, but if folks are driving far and it takes
> 4 hours to charge on level 2 (as my RAV4 EV did), 12 is not likely. The
> obstacles are many: Most people drive during the day and need to charge
> after work/in the early morning. Most people don't want to get up in the
> middle of the night to unplug one and plug in another, much less move
> vehicles. Equalizing charges take longer (usually happen automatically once
> a week).
>
> Charging two vehicles each day with one charging station would be an
> accomplishment, though a station could have more than one cable per EVSE.
>
> Jerry
>
> Jerry McIntire
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Thomas Lofft <tlofft [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >   YESTERDAY:\
> > From: Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com>
> > To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> > Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Preparing for electric cars on site
> >
> > On the bright side, one charger can probably cover 4 spots if you get the
> > nice long cord on it :)
> >
> >      - cat
> >
> > Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
> > Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
> > Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org
> >
> > How long does it take to recharge at a Level 2 (240 volt) recharge
> station?
> >
> > How many cars can be cycled through a single recharge station in a 24
> hour
> > cycle?
> >
> > Scheduling and rotating vehicles; scheduling, scheduling, scheduling...
> >
> > I would expect that a single station located centrally to four spaces for
> > vehicles parked head to head could effectively recharge at least 12
> > vehicles per day, every day.
> >
> > Tom Lofft
> >
> >
> >
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