EV Charging Facilities - Highlights of Section

Editor’s Note: These series are selected from manual Electric Vehicle Community Market Launch Manual: A Guide to Prepare Your Community for Electric Vehicles which was prepared by the Electric Transportation Coalition (ETC) and the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas (EVAA) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

PURPOSE

Most experts agree that EV charging facilities are the most important infrastructure element. If consumers can’t fuel EVs conveniently, they probably won’t purchase EVs. This section of the Manual provides infrastructure planners with information on EV charging facilities that can help them develop a plan for deploying charging stations within their communities.

ISSUES ADDRESSED

  • EV charging technology
  • Location/quantity of charging facilities
  • External factors affecting installation
  • Charging facility installation issues
  • Electric utility system impacts
  • Investing in charging facilities

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

The industry continues to develop two types of charging systems—inductive and conductive.

EV charging facilities must be available at the vehicle’s primary garaging location.

Communities have taken different paths in studying and deploying public EV charging facilities.

Local communities must adopt changes to building and electrical codes to ensure EV charging facilities can be installed expeditiously and operated safely.

Local community stakeholders and EV purchasers should decide which parties will be involved in installing charging facilities.

Electric utilities should understand the impacts of EV charging on their generation, distribution, and transmission systems.

The costs of installing residential EV charging facilities are fairly well understood. Public EV charging facility costs are not well defined due to vast differences at each location.

Some electric utilities have shown that investments in EV charging facilities and other electric transportation programs can provide direct and indirect benefits to all customers.

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August 3, 2008 · Filed Under Electric Car Conversion Blog

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