There are two issues everybody within the EV business appears to agree on: (1) we’d like extra charging infrastructure; and (2) putting in that infrastructure usually takes a lot too lengthy. The delays fairly often should do with getting a web site linked to energy, however it isn’t (at all times) the fault of the native utilities—they need to deal with lengthy delays in getting important gear similar to transformers and switchgear.
In lots of instances the issue isn’t just a scarcity of sufficient energy, however of the proper of energy—the vast majority of DC quick chargers available on the market right now require 480-volt, 3-phase energy, and there are a lot of websites the place this merely isn’t obtainable. Getting round this requires transformers, and that’s the place the issues begin.
Energy Improvements makes chargers that may deal with all kinds of enter voltages, together with single-phase 208-volt or 240-volt inputs. This will get rid of the necessity for step-up transformers, which might translate to large financial savings of money and time.
Sooner set up and decrease prices? Sounds good—however Pii touts different benefits for its chargers as nicely. As Tim Rees advised Charged’s Chloe Theobald on the latest ACT Expo, Pii’s chargers are constructed with reliability (the #1 downside within the EV infrastructure business) in thoughts. Their modular structure can preserve them delivering electrons even when one module fails.
Watch the video to listen to (and see) extra about Pii’s line of chargers, which incorporates each fastened and cellular items, in addition to battery-buffered programs.
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