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Charging Cost was topic at an Engineering Conference Posted by MI-Roger [Email]  (#882) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from MI-Roger) on Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:47:43
In Reply to: Re: Any update on NEVS? I hate paying $4.50 gallon, Snowmobile  [Profile/Gallery]
, Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:26:11
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One of the speakers at The 2012 Michigan Engineering Conference that I attended was the manager of Lansing Board of Power & Light's electric vehicle charging station installation program. For some reason this small Michigan utility (provides power for one city only) was selected by the US Gov't to spearhead this concept around 4 years ago - before there was even a standard for charger plug configuration. Equally surprising was that this was a Civil Engineering forum rather than Electrical Enginering!
The speaker stated that the cost to recharge a Chevy Volt (all residential customers except one owned a Volt) at night was only $1.40 This charge will provide ~40 miles of range with a Volt so you can probably extrapolate the off-peak recharge cost to just under $3 for a Focus or Leaf which will both travel 80 to 100 miles on a charge.
Some business owners in Lansing elected to install a charging station at their store or restaurant as a marketing tool due to this low cost of operation. The business pays the cost of the power, the Gov't grant paid for the installation. I see that G-E now sells charging stations with RFID readers which can track power to specific vehicles or owners. I suppose a business could issue the special RFID cards to interested employees and implement payroll deduction for the power consumed.
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