EV Chargers

“A typical home in the United States has about 200 amps of like circuit capacity available and a induction stove and a EV charger use about the same amount, like about 60 or 40 to 60, depending on model and configuration”

“This profession is currently responsible for over 192,000 machines in the U.S. NREL estimates we'll need twenty eight million more by 2030.”

“So between now and 2030, we're adding roughly 20 to 90 gigawatts of charger demand per year.”

“We're going to start to see more and more instances in which that distributed load begins to have to be coordinated with the utility because it's going to overwhelm the capacity of, you know, network transformers and, you know, individual households who want t…”

“They did a survey of about 5000 chargers and found that, Again, 30 to 50% of them had substandard performance.”

“Having chargers that can communicate and can be controlled and are doing that or have a high uptime to be able to do that is something that we're not able to do everywhere today, and especially in residential, we're not able to do that.”

“I don't think there's any really good argument that we aren't going to need some form of managed charging for at least some meaningful portion of EV chargers. Otherwise it's going to be a huge problem from the grid perspective.”

“Probably we're going to need to co-locate storage with a lot of these chargers. We're seeing some companies that are doing storage you know, integrating a storage solution from another provider, and other companies that are providing a storage and charger prod…”

“They all have computer systems that talk to all of those devices all the time. They all know exactly what every thermostat and hot water heater and EV charger and battery is doing every moment of every day.”