>> ... a multitude of 120vac connections are likely to be of FAR more use than a few commercial EVSEs. >> if your employer is willing to pay for the electricity, I would recommend one or two RV panels and MANY 120vac outlets.
That is not the best approach. The besta approach is to say that the EMPLOYEES are willing to pay the electric cost! And that is entirely possible with simple 120v outlets for the following reasons: 1) someone who drives and EV to work *WILL* do it almost every day and 2) If their commute is long, the will want to plugin *every day* 3) So the cost to charge is a constant 4) At electric rates of 114 cents pwer kWh, that works out to $1 per month per daily commute mile. So someone that drives 20 miles every day to work by EV will use $20 per month of electricity. SO let EV drivers that want to charge at work pay the MONTHLY rate for their commute and then they get an EV-CHARGING-PLACARD to hang on their mirror to show they have paid. No harder to enforce than handicapped spots. Additional mitigations that eliminate any employer risk: 1) people who drive less than 10 miles or so to work won't bother plugging in. Why hassle with it when they can charge plenty at home for their dail use 2) Cheaters would have to park in a spot and be plugged in over 5 hours to steal just m$1 worth of electricity 3) If they cheat, the other EV drivers who are paying will very soon turn them in so as not to destroy a nice system And lastly, EMPLOYEES do NOT WANT an EVSE since it forces them to have to go play musical cars every hour in the parking lot to share it. A true NEGATIVE in the eyes of EV drivers. see http://aprs.org/EV-charging-everywhere.html Yes, ONE EVSE might be handy for road-warriers that have to use their cars all day long and share from place to place. But that is NOT the majority of 9-5 commuters. Bob, WB4APR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151011/19444eb0/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
