Dave Engelbrecht

Tips on erecting EV-Hybrid charging points Public and Private Dave Engelbrecht

Plug-in electric vehicles, i.e. vehicles that use electric motors as the prime means of power already mass-produced in 2011. The need for electric vehicle charging stations in industrial and commercial facilities depends on the number of plug-in electric vehicles filling the market, or PEVs grows. Power system engineers will face challengeswhen applying the electric vehicle charging stations to their facility power systems. As there are relatively few electric vehicle chargers in use today, the issues and application of this equipment are still on the drawing board. The intent of this paper is to make the reader more familiar with electric vehicle charging stations by identifying and discussing the standards to which they are designed and built and describing the common features and options now available.