EV Fest 2014
Electric Vehicle Show

Making Cities Electric Vehicle Friendly

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Sustainable Cities

There are times when a Driver does not have time for a long Wait, and Level 2 Charging, is not Fast Enough. That is when a Level 3 DC Quick Charger Can Make a Trip possible that otherwise could not be done with an Electric Car: Particularly those designed as primarily Electric Commuter Cars.

Adding Level 3, DC Quick Charging within a City, can make it possible - for example - on the way to an appointment - to make a quick 5 minute or 10 minute stop, just to 'top up' the battery and be on their way. Not having such an option might mean having to sit at a Level 2 Charger for an hour or more, making it not possible to compete the intended trip in a timely manner.

Having Level 3 DC Quick Charging, IN your city, means Suitable Electric Vehicles with onboard DC Quick Charging Equipment, can increase their versatility greatly!

Brands and Types of Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

There are a number of Brands and a few Standards commonly providing Level 3 DC Quick Charging.

CHAdeMO

The First Standard to be developed, was designed in Japan, for their Electric Vehicles, to encourage adoption, is called CHAdeMO - a loose english approximation for 'Charge and Move', meaning - charge up and get back on the road quickly.

This brand has it's own website for more detailed information: http://www.chademo.com/

In the USA there are nearly 600 Such Stations installed currently.

This is currenlty used and included in the Mitsubishi iMiEV, in all but the basic Nissan LEAF Models, and is planned and will be on the Coming KIA SOUL EV. These Vehicles are currenly the most prolific of the pure Battery electric Vehicles, and this standard is the most Quick Charging Option in demand.

SAE CCS

The Next Standard in development, was by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and since the Japanese design was not 'American' they set about creating a DC Quick Charging Design of their own. The ended up creating a New Communication Protocall, a new plug, compatible - in part, with the standard they previously created for Level 2 Charging - the J1772 Plug interface system, and the new Level 3 Plug is called SAE CCS - for 'Combo Charging System'.

This interface at present, has limited installs, which were a total of 4 at the last review, using a common Mapping service - called www.plugshare.com and filtering to this standard only for display.

Vehicles that will be using this at present, are limited to the coming BMW i3, and the (FLEET ONLY) Chevy SPARK EV.

The Closest thing I can find to a website specific for the SAE CCS is: http://papers.sae.org/2013-01-1475/

Tesla Supercharger

The Last Standard, if you will, is that used by Tesla Motors Inc. for Their Tesla Model S Sedan, and will be used in their future Vehicles to be devloped.

It is the highest power Fast Charging System, used for both fast AC Charging, and Extremely Fast DC Charging, specific to Tesla Vehicles Only (At Present), and if other current vehicles attempted to use it (if they could - since the plug was purposely designed differently, but their protocall is compatible with the CHAdeMO Protocall), they could experience major electrical issues, due to the high power output of this system. Tesla Motors uses active liquid Cooling of it's EV Battery Packs, allowing much faster recharge capability than all other Electric Vehicles.

Tesla Motors Inc. is Expanding Their Own Network of Supercharger Stations on their own expense, and have their own development plan as shown at http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger 

For a quick and simple overview of the various ways and types of plugs for Electric vehicle Charging - se this story: "ChargePoint Introduces Us To The Little Monsters Of Plug In Electric Vehicle Charging" 

Suggested Installation Goals for Level 3 DC Quick Chargers within Cities:

Start with a first Goal of at least one (1) in your city, with 24 hour access, open to all vehicle brands, placed near facilities for the benefit of Drivers, and the Businesses, Centred at the busiest point of the city with services to support such a charger.

Next, Build a growth Plan, with a Suggested Target of:

1. 2014: 1 per 200,000 Population
2. 2015: 1 per 100,000 Population
3. 2016: 1 Per 50,000 Population
4. 2017: 1 Per 30,000 Population
5. 2018: 1 per 20,000 Population
6. 2019: 1 Per 10,000 Population
7. 2020: 1 Per 7,000 Population
8. 2021: 1 Per 5,000 Population

Examples (2006 Population Census Numbers),
5 Cities, Planning from today to 7 years out, starting in 2014:

For 2014: (1 per 200,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 2 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 3 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 1 Level 3 DC Quick Charger.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 2 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 12 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2015: (1 per 100,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 4 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 6 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 1 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 5 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 25 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2016: (1 Per 50,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 8 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 13 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 3 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 10 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 50 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2017: (1 Per 30,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 14 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 22 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 5 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 16 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 83 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2018: (1 Per 20,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 21 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 33 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 8 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 25 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 125 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2019: (1 Per 10,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Population 433,805; Installed 43 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Population 668,550; Installed 66 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Population 165,000; Installed 16 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Population 504,560; Installed 50 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Population 2.503 Million; Installed 250 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2020: (1 Per 7,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Pop. 433,805; Installed 62 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Pop. 668,550; Installed 95 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Pop. 165,000; Installed 23 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Pop. 504,560; Installed 72 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Pop. 2.503 Million; Installed 357 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

For 2021: (1 Per 5,000 Population)
Brampton, ON: Pop. 433,805; Installed 86 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Mississauga, ON: Pop. 668,550; Installed 132 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Oakville, ON: Pop. 165,000; Installed 32 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Hamilton, ON: Pop. 504,560; Installed 100 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.
Toronto, ON: Pop. 2.503 Million; Installed 500 Level 3 DC Quick Chargers.

Full Vehicle Coverage

Each Location with Level 3 DC Quick Charging Should have co-located at least 2 Level 2 Chargers, with at least one of them a High Power Charging Station, to support Vehicles that can not use the DC Quick Charger, but can use a high powered AC Level 2 Charging Station for Supplying its Charge.

I believe you can work this out for your cities own requirements, but you can see the general growth suggestions as provided in these examples. The Reasons for the growth parameters are two fold - to support a grwoing level of Electric Vehicle Adoption, and to support a growing level of Electric Vehicle Application.

Continue, See:
Making Electric Vehicle Travel work for Highway Use