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Free Destination Charging: 50x L2 80A Stations @ Caltech, Pasadena, CA

Discussion in 'Supercharging & Charging Infrastructure' started by MITE46, Nov 26, 2015.

  1. ggnykk

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    Not necessary the garage to park gasoline car, but I am talking about the electric charger that EV driver actually use.
    I can't imagine a place on this earth actually need 160 electric charger in a SINGLE location, maybe if you put them in a super busy shopping mall in the heart of silicon valley, Yes, there is a demand for it. But otherwise, such massive charger deployment strategy is just a waste of resource and money. It just doesn't make any sense at all.
     
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    private office park with 10,000 people on campus. 160 is a drop in the bucket. this isn't about charging for the general public at bobs grocery store.
     
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    California will exceed 10% EVs in the not so distant future. We are currently at only 3.5%, but with over 7% of new car sales electric and rising each year, it will happen in this new decade.
     
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    +1. When Gigafactory 4 (Germany) is on line (2021) and GF3 (China) are both cranking out cars, Fremont and GF2 will primarily supply US. Half of that will go to CA, maybe 300,000-400,000/yr. Since CA is adding GWs/yr solar and there is already excess 10am-2pm in the spring, workplace charging will become more important. 100-200 stall EV charging will soon be the norm. To eliminate carbon emissions, we will need charging at nearly every parking space (or eliminate driving). Remember, this is a university on the bleeding edge, which in this case is just barely a year or two in front of the future.
     
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    I'm bookmarking this quote, so in 5-10 years we can all look back and chuckle.
     
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    No need to bookmark....160 chargers already full every work day....average 2MWh delivered per day.

    Each color is a different floor of the same parking lot. We will be starting several 300-400+ port installs in the same garage soon.
     
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  7. Jeepxj

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    yea but that guy says you should put in 10 spots all over the place because free charging for random people is definitely better for a company than putting chargers in their own garages.

    400 in one garage? my god btw. what power supply?
     
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    It only seems under utilized because these pictures are from off hours. Electric vehicles, especially Tesla, are popular in California. Even more so for the Caltech community.
    You won't have to wait. These chargers are fully utilized, at least during the day at the first lot. All manner of Model 3, S, X, Bolts, plug in hybrids. I would prove it with a photo, but social distancing precludes that at the moment.
     
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    Spent Saturday picking up trash along the Tesla chargers. Certainly not people on this forum but if you see people litter, ask them to pick up their trash.
     
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    If I recall correctly that actor was actually Italian, not Native American.
     
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