EV chargers

also referred to as: ev charger

7 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2022 by Astrid Atkinson · across every show →

Everything said about EV chargers, oldest first

Mar 11, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Atkinson: Smart device vendors continuously track every connected thermostat, charger, and battery
“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.”
Astrid Atkinson Mar 11, 2022 ▶ 37:12 What the grid can learn from the internet
Aug 11, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
ChargerHelp survey found 30% to 50% of 5,000 EV chargers underperformed
“They did a survey of about 5000 chargers and found that, Again, 30 to 50% of them had substandard performance.”
Cassie Bowe Aug 11, 2022 ▶ 30:23 Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
Aug 11, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kann: Grid reliability requires managed charging for a meaningful portion of EVs
“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.”
Shayle Kann Aug 11, 2022 ▶ 37:29 Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
Aug 11, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bowe: Co-locating battery storage with EV chargers will increase significantly
“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…”
Cassie Bowe Aug 11, 2022 ▶ 43:00 Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
Aug 11, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bowe: Smart controllable EV chargers are largely unavailable in residential settings
“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.”
Cassie Bowe Aug 11, 2022 ▶ 34:53 Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
Aug 17, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lubbershane: EV and Heat Pump Adoption Will Overwhelm Local Transformers
“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…”
Andy Lubershane Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 24:39 Navigating the electricity gauntlet
May 8, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
NREL: US needs 28 million additional EV chargers by 2030
“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.”
Stephen Lacey May 8, 2024 ▶ 34:35 The news quiz episode!
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