EVcast #229: Charge me up, Scotty!

Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 7:19 AM (not yet rated) post viewed 1424 times

Nikki Bloomfield is joined by EV enthusiast Evan Tuer from Scotland and Tim Nicklin, founder of www.ev-network.org.uk, a website devoted to making sure you always know where a charging spot is.
They are discussing the future of EV charging points and trying to bash their way through the ways in which charging networks will change over the next ten years.

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Rick Covert
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RickCovert said on Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 12:14 PM:

Nikki,

I was wondering where you were. I didn't get my daily EVCast fix so I listened to those other British Invasion guys from Liverpool. I'm downloading it now and its a looong one. Excellent!

Later,

Rick, from the oil, and flood drenched, and state governor thinking about secession until swine flu hit now he's not, capitol of the world, Houston, TX.

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Michael Base
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miketulsa said on Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 1:04 PM:

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Paul Cummings
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PaulCummings said on Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 9:25 PM:

Once again, I enjoyed this informative parley from across the pond. You can visit Evan Tuer's site at: http://www.tuer.co.uk/

I do not think it will be the cost of building quick-charge stations that will be a problem- to build a gas station with pumps I think is already several hundred thousand dollars, and our landscape is cluttered with them. We will not need nearly as many quick-charge stations- just primarily, as y'all mentioned, on the highways between cities- in town there will only be a need for a few. In fact, with America's love of small Quick-marts, there will probably be an over-abundance of quick-charge stations. Well, at least eventually;-)

And therein lies the rub - it is not a question of 'if you build it, they will come,' but rather a 'when the EV's come we will build it.' But at least, as today's show concurred, home-charging should be more than sufficient for a long time to come.

So, how do we get there? I see two posible paths. One is the way of the EREV, like the Volt- an excellent transition vehicle to, hopefully, the all-electric cars of the future. The other path would involve a major break-through in battery technology, in it's capacity, capability and cost (okay, I did not say EESTOR) (Well, at least not too loudly;-)

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