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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Since it was not a Level 2 charger, I knew it would not gain much juice overnight. That meant looking for a decent public DC charging station in a nearby town. On the last day I knew I would have to get a full charge to make it back to Heathrow and leave it with enough juice for the driver who would collect it. In summary.

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Is Your Dealership Ready for EV Buyers?

Blink Charging

Here are a few steps your dealership should take to ensure it is ready to sell EVs: Install EV infrastructure Perhaps the most obvious step is to install EV charging stations at the dealership to ensure EVs are always topped up with juice for test drives and so buyers can leave the lot with a full battery.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

In case of power outage at home, the DC pins in the charger can send juice back into the house, keeping the lights on. America’s largest panel producer, Sunrun of California has teamed up with Ford to offer solar roof panels integrated into the transfer switch setup in sync with Ford’s “Intelligent Backup Power” installation.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a consumer, and you get a Volt, Smart, or Ford electric car, you probably qualify for a free home charge station. Free Juice Bar explicitly sells charge stations to offer free power.

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Keepin' it simple

Plugs and Cars

Plus installation. All plug-in cars these days come with a 120-volt charge cord. This will actually be sufficient for many if not most Volt drivers, and quite a few LEAF drivers. An empty Volt pack will take 10 hours to fully recharge; an empty LEAF about 20 hours. My installation was pretty simple, so it cost me nothing.

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When Things Fall Apart

Open Source Civic EV Kit

I had recently installed the PakTrakr system, so I cleared out the serial logging attachment and started collecting data. After the car sat for 20 minutes, I had enough juice to get to the auto parts place. After poking around under the hood, I also found a critical resistor that enabled the DC-DC converter had broken off.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. More simply, volts x amps = watts. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. In March 2020 we installed 9 solar panels an inverter and 2 battery packs. Power is watts. Octopus Go.

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