I can tell you that the power needs ARE a concern. The CEO of one trucking company that uses alternative fueled trucks of varying technologies, blanched when told that two Tesla trucks would require 2MW for charging, when his entire site had capacity for only 4 MW.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Jul 30, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, the article imprecisely referred to "high speed chargers." Do you > think they are concerned by everyone using level 2 at the same time ? > > Second, the article mentions a cul-de-sac as an example case. I think it > matters a lot where people charge. If the L3 chargers are in a residential > setting, they will put more load on a system already near max during peak > periods. Commercial already has much higher capacity and L3 chargers probably > don't add so much additional load. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > Peri > > << Want to know about the effects of leaf blowers ? > https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: [email protected] > To: "Peri Hartman" <[email protected]>; "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: 30-Jul-20 11:57:50 AM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Smoothing Out the dreaded Duck-Curve> EV charging > strategies > >>> First, why do utilities think people will install level 3 chargers ? A >>> small percentage of people really do drive that much every day, >> >> I think the utilities are expecting that people will use Public level 3 >> chargers during the day and private level 2 at night. >> I.e. for the majority of people, their vehicles are not home during peak >> solar, and perhaps also not home during the early evenings. >> >> From the utlities point of view, it doesn't matter where they charge, only >> that they are charging. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
