Quoting brucedp5 <[email protected]>:
Nissan seems to place limits on building infrastructure. I read that
they only deal with governments, corporations and municipalities. I
know this is off topic but we have been building our local EVSE
infrastructure since 2010 and continue to do so with ClipperCreek.
http://www.recargo.com/sites/1298
Ron Solberg
J&R Housing
Growing the Grid, a dearth of EV stations in wide swaths across the U.S.
'If my employer installs EVSE @work, I’m likely to drive an EV'
http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/2307/nissan-talks-chicken-and-egg-issue-of-evs/
[image] Nissan Talks Chicken-and-Egg Issue of EVs
by Lyndon Johnson Mar 16 2013
[image / Nissan North America
http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/files/2013/03/Workplace_Charging_04.jpg
Is workplace charging the key to wider acceptance of EVs? We say yes
Nissan Press Photo- LEAFs charging at Evernote
video
http://nissannews.com/en-US/nissan/usa/releases/video-report-growing-the-grid-nissan-looks-back-at-developing-highways-fueling-stations-and-similarities-to-today
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The PR team at Nissan has released two videos recently that discuss the
chicken-and-egg scenario facing EVs and comparing it to what
gasoline-powered cars faced early in their existence.
In the first video, titled “Growing the Grid – Nissan Looks Back at
Developing Highways, Fueling Stations and Similarities to Today,” Nissan
interviewed 97-year old Charlie Yeager. The footage shows him eyeballing
cars at Nashville’s Lane Motor Museum, including the electric Triumph
Spitfire we featured here recently.
Yeager said he remembered a time when “You had to pretty well memorize where
the gas stations were and where you could get off the road and have a chance
of getting back on after you repaired a tire.”
In a similar way, EV owners who push the limits of their cars’ driving range
probably have memorized the locations of EV charging stations in
neighborhoods they frequent. If not, they may rely on in-car technology like
that in Nissan’s LEAF to pinpoint the nearest charging station and get
directions to it.
But it’s the dearth of charging stations in wide swaths of the country that
can be the most challenging obstacle for widespread EV acceptance. And
without sufficient market penetration of EVs, convincing business owners to
install charging stations is a difficult proposition. That’s a shame because
the ability to charge at work would effectively double the daily driving
range of EVs for most people, making them a more viable option for those who
may not be comfortable with the limited driving range allowed by current
battery technology.
In its second video, Nissan talked to a business owner who saw not only the
convenience of offering on-site charging for employees, but also the time
and money savings. In fact, Evernote CEO Phil Libin offered employees a $250
monthly bonus to go toward the purchase or lease of a vehicle capable of
being granted a HOV lane exception sticker from Evernote’s home state of
California. Since this is coming from Nissan PR, you may not be surprised to
learn that amount just happens to pay the full amount of a lease on a new
LEAF, which is of course eligible for the sticker that allows it to be
driven in the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane even when only one person is
in the car.
Libin said, “The math really works out. We have a lot of very talented and
very valuable people and they waste a lot of time in traffic. So if we can
save them a half hour a day, and that is very easy to do, a lot of people
save much more than that, very quickly that winds up adding up to a whole
lot more than what we pay for the car so it just makes economic sense.”
Evernote installed 10 Level 2 charging stations and one DC quick charge
station for employees to use, and judging by the video, they see plenty of
use. The company is one of many participating in the Department of Energy’s
Workplace Charging Challenge, which we told you about some time ago.
This, to my eye, is the only way EVs can advance past this chicken-and-egg
stage in their acceptance. Unless my employer one day installs a charging
station, I’m highly unlikely to buy or lease an EV. My newspaper job
requires me to drive sometimes up to 35 miles round-trip in the middle of
the day while covering news stories– something that would wreck my ability
to get home without range anxiety, even though my round-trip commute is only
20 miles when you don’t count miles driven in the middle of the day. Others
may not have to drive much, if any in the middle of the day, but might face
a commute that wouldn’t give them much reserve driving range for the return
trip without the ability to charge while at work.
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