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It's not always that simple - the electric lines have to support the load of additional vehicles. Even a relatively low charge rate of 12A (like a Volt) quickl
by mdorazio 13y ago
It's not always that simple - the electric lines have to support the load of additional vehicles. Even a relatively low charge rate of 12A (like a Volt) quickly exceeds the capacity of standard electrical wiring after about 3 vehicles. It's worse if you want higher speed charging, which requires 30A+ per connector. Adding the infrastructure to support more cables can actually be more expensive than running additional chargers, depending on how the lines were run.
- angusb 13y agoI think the idea was that instead of simultaneously charging several cars, it charges them one by one (round robin). You just have multiple connectors to stop employees having to leave the office to change the connectors over when one car finishes charging. But I guess it would require smart-ifying the charger base so it could decide when to send power to each of the cars.