[EVDL] EVLN: Go Ultra Low campaign updates approach to plugin ownership
http://www.fleetpoint.org/top-news/you-may-never-have-to-visit-a-petrol-station-again/31478/
You may never have to visit a petrol station again
By Neil Thomason July 29, 2015
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New analysis by plug-in vehicle campaign Go Ultra Low suggests that British
motorists could no longer have to rely on the conventional petrol station.
More than [90%] of electric vehicle charging takes place at home while total
charging volumes have almost tripled since 2014 (163% increase), according
to new usage data from leading infrastructure provider Chargemaster.
Coupled with bumper uptake of plug-in vehicles – more than 14,500 were
registered in the first half of 2015 – the new findings point to the
potential for motorists to lessen their reliance on petrol stations by
opting for hassle-free electric-car ownership.
Hetal Shah, Head of Go Ultra Low suggests that motorists should consider
updating their approach to car ownership: “The reasoning is simple – why
should motorists have to go out of their way, regularly spending time at
petrol stations, when it is easy to ‘refuel’ from the comfort of their own
home, simply by plugging in an electric car? EV-sceptics sometimes question
the usability of the UK’s roadside charging infrastructure, but this new
data indicates that it is an important, but not critical, facility for most
electric vehicle owners.”
Government subsidies of up to £700 are available for the installation of
fast, efficient home-chargepoints; however that’s just the start of the
savings. EV drivers could cut tax and fuel costs by around £800 per year
versus the average car on the road, with driving costing from around 2p a
mile compared to around 10-12p per mile for a typical petrol or diesel car.
The savings continue to stack up as plug-in vehicles also need less
maintenance and can be parked for free in many places.
With the average commute in the UK less than 10 miles, the majority of
plug-in car and van drivers are able to charge entirely at home or work,
only occasionally using public chargepoints as a back-up or additional
top-up for longer journeys.
As well as only commuting short distances, more than a third of UK motorists
never travel more than 80 miles in a single trip, comfortably within the
100-mile range of most pure electric vehicles. For those who regularly need
to travel further or don’t have a driveway for home-charging, some plug-in
hybrids can travel around 700 miles without needing to refuel.
Motorists driving beyond their car’s range can make use of more than 7,500
public chargepoints in 3,000 locations nationwide. This back-up
infrastructure is set to grow further with government planning to complete
the installation of 500 rapid chargers in key locations, such as motorway
service stations, by the end of 2015. In total, £32 million of
infrastructure support is due to be implemented between now and 2020, while
£8 million has been set aside for public chargepoints. Crucially, this
funding also makes allowance for motorists’ primary charging locations, with
£15 million available for the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme.
Go Ultra Low is a campaign to help motorists understand the benefits, cost
savings and capabilities of the variety of new ultra low emission vehicles
on the market. The collaborative campaign is the first of its kind, bringing
together a consortium of leading car manufacturers: Audi, BMW, Mitsubishi,
Nissan, Renault, Toyota, and Volkswagen alongside the Government and Society
of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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[EVDL] Before buying a pig.cn in an e-poke, know the legal requirements
http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/schoodic-scooter-craze-raises-issues Schoodic scooter craze raises issues July 23, 2015 by Jacqueline Weaver [image / Jacqueline Weaver http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/07/scooters-jw00031.jpg Kathryn Balteff assembled and sold 44 electric scooters for a family friend, Keith Young. She also picked one up for herself. Now owners are being told they need a permit or license to operate them and must insure and register them as mopeds. ] WINTER HARBOR — Back in May, retired boat captain Keith Young had a chance to buy 44 electric scooters from a landlord in Biddeford who ended up with them in lieu of rent. Thinking the whisper quiet, no emission scooters would be the perfect thing for the ecologically minded Schoodic Peninsula, Young got a good price and had the scooters shipped to his Quonset hut just outside the entrance to Acadia National Park. “They’re neat: no emissions, no sounds,” Young said. “I thought everyone would like the idea. They’re environmentally friendly and I thought they would do well in the campground.” The new Schoodic Woods Campground is scheduled to open Sept. 4 and will be operated by the National Park Service. A friend of Young’s, Kathryn Balteff, offered to assemble the scooters — which were made in China — and sell them for $250 apiece. Balteff added the accessories, such as baskets, cargo bins, pedals and fenders. Within six days all the scooters were sold. “A few older kids got them, but it was mostly folks who were just getting them for themselves,” Balteff said. “Keith just wanted something fun for the community. It was great fun. It’s nice to see people smile.” Soon the brightly colored scooters were seen zipping up and down the roads of the Schoodic Peninsula. One person who spotted them along with everyone else was Police Chief Mike Walsh, who saw a few children riding them. “Now they’re everywhere,” said Walsh of the machines that are so quiet you can’t hear someone coming up behind you. Four or five new scooter owners asked Walsh if they needed to register their new vehicles. He contacted the Department of Motor Vehicles to find out how the scooters should be classified. “The following is what’s required,” Walsh posted on the Winter Harbor Police Department’s Facebook page July 15 [ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Winter-Harbor-Police-Department/125090847516147?fref=ts ]. “They MUST be registered as mopeds and the operator must have a license or permit.” The DMV told Walsh the vehicles must be registered as mopeds because the wheels are 12 inches. If the wheels were less than 10 inches in diameter they would be considered scooters, which do not have to be registered or inspected. The registration fee, according to the state’s DMV website, is $9, and the owner must show proof of insurance. In addition, DMV rules stipulate that a moped driver has to be 16 with a driver’s license or a learner permit. Or, a 16-year-old can choose to get just a moped license, which requires passing a written exam. Walsh’s posting was followed by a volley of Facebook reactions. Some thanked Walsh. Others wondered why he didn’t have other things to keep him busy. Walsh, who monitors social media, quickly joined one Facebook thread saying he had no intention of doing anything drastic, such as issuing tickets. “We’re not that heartless. We will inform the people and give them a chance to register them,” he said. “If they continually ignore it, then we have to do something.” Walsh added later that he is not faulting Young, but he thought the issue needed a bit more research. “I’m concerned about people’s safety and about the liability for the town if it is known we were aware of it and didn’t do anything about it,” he said. The other issue is finding insurance. Some say the mopeds are covered under their house insurance. Others say it’s a Catch 22. Paul Tracy, owner of the Winter Harbor Agency, said he was approached by some new moped owners seeking insurance, but he can’t find any coverage. “We have three carriers that we deal with that write insurance for mopeds,” he said. “They said those aren’t mopeds. They have a serial number, but they don’t have a VIN (vehicle identification number). They consider them electric bikes.” “I don’t know where to go with this other than to get a ruling from the state,” Tracy said. “I don’t know how to fix this.” It could be that new owners who don’t want to jump through all those hoops might decide just to buzz around on the scooters on their personal property. In any case, Walsh feels like he is being treated like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Even his new bride was sticking up for him on Facebook. Young is not happy either. What started out as a nice thing for the town has become something more problematic and he’s not sure what to make of it all. In any event, he has no intentions of opening an electric scooter business any time soon. “This was a
[EVDL] EVLN: Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered e-airplane makes sense
'Small e-aircraft could provide transportation for people and goods who live on islands or in remote areas where rail and road travel don’t make sense and it may be easier and cheaper to produce electricity than to deliver liquid fuel' http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/07/solar_impulse_and_cricri_could_these_solar_powered_airplanes_lead_to_real.html Don’t Laugh at Solar-Powered Airplanes By Daniel Gross [images http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/business/the_juice/2015/07/150724_JUICE_SolarImpulse2.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg A ground crew member walks near the solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 at a mobile hanger at Nagoya airport in Nagoya, Japan, June 3, 2015. Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/business/the_juice/2015/07/150724_JUICE_SolarImpulsePrototype.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg German test pilot Markus Scherdel steers the solar-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype airplane during his first flight over Payerne, Switzerland, April 7, 2010. Photo by Laurent Gillieron/Pool via Reuters ] Yes, they’re stunt vehicles. But they could transform aviation in more ways than you think. There have been a couple of high-profile aviation experiments that involved flying without fuel this summer, ones that might be easily dismissed as stunts. First, the Solar Impulse—which soaks up rays during the day and runs on batteries at night—undertook a harrowing five-day manned flight from Japan to Hawaii. (I was glued to its webcast as pilot André Borschberg flew the wobbly craft over a vast stretch of the Pacific Ocean.) Then in the second week of July, two different planes powered only by batteries flew over the English Channel from Britain to France. These feats can strike skeptics as futile. When I mentioned to someone in the fossil-fuel business that a plane had just crossed half the Pacific on solar power, the answer came, “Why?” After all, what are these stunts demonstrating? The Solar Impulse went about 40 mph, and its batteries were sufficiently damaged by the journey that the next leg of its trek has been delayed. The Cricri, one of the channel-crossing planes, topped out at about 90 miles per hour. These one- and two-seaters can’t carry a significant number of passengers or any cargo to speak of. Jet fuel is cheap and plentiful—by recent historical standards—and planes that run on it are remarkably fast and safe. Solar crossings often look more like model-kit demonstrations or science experiments or publicity stunts (the Solar Impulse has a host of high-end brand sponsorships) than serious advances in transportation. And, no, solar panels aren’t going to replace fuel-powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners or Airbus A380s as workhorses of the sky. But these events are nonetheless important for several reasons. The first is almost purely emotional. There’s something about the concept of human flight that touches a nerve, captures the public’s imagination, and simply gets people excited—from Lindbergh’s Atlantic crossing in 1927 to the Apollo moon landing in 1969, to the guy who in 2012 jumped from a helium balloon 24 miles above the Earth.* Many of us feel a vicarious thrill, and subsequently a sense of inspiration, from watching people take steps for mankind. The second is more practical. Innovations in transportation almost always strike contemporary observers as useless, dangerous, rickety contraptions that don’t stand a chance of being anything more than curiosities. The loud, belching steamboat Robert Fulton launched on the Hudson River in 1807 was dubbed “Fulton’s Folly” by observers. The Wright Brothers’ first plane (which is now recapturing some of our imaginations thanks to a new biography by David McCullough), didn’t look particularly airworthy as its insubstantial frame wobbled along the North Carolina coastline. Henry Ford’s first cars were clanking, clattering, high-end menaces. When they first appeared, each of these transport modes was a one-off—an expensive home kit produced by hobbyists. And yet each developed over the course of a few decades into a dominant, economically efficient, safe standard. The same cycle can be seen with both renewable energy and electricity storage—the two phenomena that made the Solar Impulse’s journey possible. Forty years ago, solar panels were toys for hobbyists or off-the-grid hippies. Homespun power was both expensive and inefficient. But a few decades of engineering prowess, manufacturing scale, and innovation can work wonders. Today, solar panels can be arrayed at so-called utility scale—large enough to rival big power plants. And in some parts of the country, solar farms are the low-cost power source. In the 1980s, electric cars were extremely expensive, low-functioning vehicles—glorified golf carts. Today, the Tesla Model S comes with an option that lets the car zoom from zero to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds. This is not to argue that 2015’s solar- and battery-powered
[EVDL] 22 cell bms for small electric motorcycle
I have a mini bms w cell moduals. But alamaring on LVC while out in the county is a little scary. most of my cells are pretty well balnced... I also have a C. A. . BUT I'm looking for some thing that will alert as each cell/s get to perset level. Orian is to spendy, eltion light also. I have a smart kelly controller. I want some thing that will beep or a screen with a cell getting below a set point . something more that HVC/LVC system. maybe with a small display.. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
[EVDL] EVLN: Queensland.au Solar L3 EVSE For Super EV Highway
https://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/28/queensland-plans-solar-fast-charging-stations-for-electric-vehicle-super-highway/
Queensland Plans Solar Fast-Charging Stations For Electric Vehicle ‘Super
Highway’
July 28th, 2015 Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath
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Queensland’s state government has called for expressions of interest to
build what is being billed as Australia’s first electric vehicle service
station, as the first installment of a potential 1,600km network of solar
powered EV fast-charging stations dotted along the Bruce Highway.
In a statement released over the weekend, the Palaszckuk government said the
service station, earmarked for the Townsville suburb of Oonoonba, would
cater to conventional petrol fuelled cars and EVs, with fast charging
facilities that could recharge an electric vehicle in just 15-30 minutes.
As part of the incentive, local network operator Ergon Energy would offer
the business owner the opportunity to lease 25kW of solar panels, while
Economic Development Queensland would provide support for EV charger
equipment leasing.
“Oonoonba is less than 3 kilometres from the Bruce Highway and the
Townsville CBD, so is well positioned to cater for local motorists as well
as those travelling along the highway,” the minister assisting the Premier
on North Queensland, Coralee O’Rourke, said.
“Our vision is for this to be the start of an ‘electric super highway’ by
facilitating fast-charging service locations for drivers travelling up and
down the length of Queensland.”
“Up to two electric vehicles could charge at the same time, with an expected
average charge time of 15-30 minutes,” O’Rourke said.
It is unclear whether the project will be separate from the electric super
highway planned by Brisbane-based EV infrastructure company Tritium, using
its world-leading Veefil fast chargers.
The Fast Cities Network – a proposed network of 12 EV fast chargers linking
430km of highway in Queensland’s south-east, and touted as Australia’s
largest “electric super highway” – was launched last November, with Veefil
fast chargers since installed in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
In total, the plan was for four of the 12 units to be installed in Fortitude
Valley, Coorparoo and St Lucia, Brisbane, while a further eight would link
popular destinations in the region, including Noosa, the Sunshine Coast,
Caboolture/Burpengary, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Cararra/Southport,
Coolangata/Tweed, and Byron Bay.
Back in November, Tritium said it was in the process of talking to a number
of organisations about how they could become involved in the project, but
was interested in hearing from any business, car club or civic association
that might like to support the initiative or host a charging unit along the
route.
Meanwhile, the hugely successful Queensland-made technology – which can
charge an EV in as little as 10 minutes – is also being used to build an
electric super highway across New Zealand, with 23 Veefil 50kW DC fast
chargers shipped so far for the project.
The technology is also being supplied to California-based ChargePoint, as
part of a huge deal that will see the award-winning Veefil fast charging
stations installed throughout the US, including the express charging
corridors on both the east and west coasts.
Elsewhere in Australia, the RAC has installed a network of 12 electric
vehicle fast charging stations along a 310km stretch of Western Australian
roadways connecting Perth to Augusta.
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Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Iceholes ticketed w/ $75-$100 fine from Gabel's ILlaw
Time for an IL voice to chime in. The law reads, any offstreet public or private parking facility. Private parking facility means one of the hundreds of privately owned parking garages in the Chicagoland area, many of which offer free charging with the roughly $20 fee to park there. And the spirit of the law is to protect these spots from being Ice'd. Regarding private drives, I don't think the police would have any jurisdiction to write a ticket there. I mean, if I put up handicap signage and paint a handicap parking space in my driveway, could the police ticket me if I park there without a handicap placard? I think not. Michael Willuweit On Aug 1, 2015, at 10:14 PM, Cor van de Water via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: Bruce provided a link to the proposed bill and it is only a few lines, so you can check for yourself. What I read is exactly what the reporter wrote: any public or private parking, so if you have a private reserved spot and you place an EV charging sign in it and then you park your ICE in it, it is possible (not likely, but possible) that you get towed and ticketed. This is not so different from parking in front of your own driveway. A police officer has no way of knowing of an illegal parked car is blocking your driveway or that it is your own vehicle, so he can write a ticket for your car parked in the street in front of your own driveway. I don't see much problem with that. If you don't want to be ticketed for parking your ICE in your spot then don't put up an EV charging sign. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: cwa...@proxim.comPrivate: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP: +31877841130 Tel: +1 408 383 7626Tel: +91 (040)23117400 x203 -Original Message- From: EV on behalf of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Sat 8/1/2015 11:03 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Iceholes ticketed w/ $75-$100 fine from Gabel's ILlaw On 1 Aug 2015 at 9:36, tomw via EV wrote: Are you certain they are not talking about a privately owned parking garage? Some of these have installed EVSEs. That would make more sense. Maybe. Yes, that would make more sense. Hart to be sure from the story, though. Today's journalists are notorious for getting things like this wrong, or omitting essential details. You'd have to go right to the bill itself to see if it could affect home garages. You'd sure hope not! David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to evpost and etpost addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4083 bytes Desc: not available URL: http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150801/dea1e967/attachment.bin ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
Re: [EVDL] 22 cell bms for small electric motorcycle
I'm going to try CellLog8 for simple HVC function. Not sure if it does LVC but I'm ok with using pack LV. On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:17 AM, ken via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: I have a mini bms w cell moduals. But alamaring on LVC while out in the county is a little scary. most of my cells are pretty well balnced... I also have a C. A. . BUT I'm looking for some thing that will alert as each cell/s get to perset level. Orian is to spendy, eltion light also. I have a smart kelly controller. I want some thing that will beep or a screen with a cell getting below a set point . something more that HVC/LVC system. maybe with a small display.. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150802/f840a8c4/attachment.htm ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
