Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: more on EV charging stations from River Song

[Philip Semanchuk (philip]

> On Jan 24, 2022, at 11:21 PM, Chuck Harrison <cfharr [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> @Philip at present our charging stations are mostly level 2 on 40A breakers
> (32A max charge rate). Our community is about half your size and we
> currently have 8 EVs and 5 Level 2 stations. Two vehicles have small
> batteries and use Level 1. One electrified space serves two EVs that belong
> to the same family, so they handle the switcheroo themselves. No other
> station is shared. I would not be surprised to see one EV per household in
> 15 years, and our system is designed to build out incrementally to that
> point.

Thanks for the info, that's interesting. Given that you have the option for one 
charger per parking spot, did you not feel like 240V level 1 chargers could 
meet your needs? 

We're significantly behind you in EV penetration, but there's some 
chicken-and-egg going on because some residents have said they wanted to buy an 
EV but haven't because they have no place to charge. Due to the way our 
community is laid out, very few residents can even do minimal level 1 charging 
by plugging into an outdoor outlet on their house. (I can; I'm one of the lucky 
ones.) Until we get shared chargers installed here, most residents have no 
option to charge at home. 

For the record, we hope to install 48A chargers on 60A breakers. 

Cheers
Philip