tomw via EV wrote:
EVSE availability varies greatly with area of the country.
That's for sure. Where we live, there's an EVSE at the Nissan dealer in
St. Cloud MN (about 10 miles away). Beyond that, the next one is in
Brooklyn Park MN, (65 miles away). When we test drove a Nissan Leaf, 2/3
EVSE availability varies greatly with area of the country. I use public
EVSE's regularly and in the last few years have only had one time when one
was not available, and it was marked as unavailable due to construction on
the Chargepoint website. I replaced my PFC20 this year with an EMW 10kW
Has this happened to anyone? Has anyone seen a cut off cable?
I had a storage shed with rolls of #6 wire and about ten new J1772 cables
that was broken into. They took the #6 wire and left the cables. The EV
cables are too difficult to strip for not much copper, look at the present
cable
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, David Kerzel via EV wrote:
There are plenty of other issues: what if the EVSE was out of service or
what if the power was out? I don't believe there is any guarantee a charge
will be available when you need one any place but at home.
Exactly why I only use my EV for round
Note that using steel cable and even getting somewhat close to the same
resistance would make the cable several times heavier and stiffer, so
much more difficult to handle. (using steel cable)
That is why I suggest the steel wire be used only for the signal
wires which only have milliamperes
And, of course, much of this is because of the value in scrap copper
combined with the anonymity of recycling operations. Some sort of
regulation might be called for, but I don't know how to pull that off.
I recently made trip yo a recycling yard where I was photographed, the
transaction video
Having seen the effects of weather on connections to aluminum wire I wonder
how one makes a reliable connection to this sort of wire for high current
applications? Aluminum also hates to be bent and rebent, making work
hardening and fracture a realistic failure mode. What strategies prevent
