Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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Also, how many of those homes are multi-car? Mom, dad, kid(s) all have to go to work/school at different times and places. Good luck making that work with one vehicle.
Yea, multi-vehicle is a problem, but I think Tesla already has a solution. I just installed their "wall connector" and it has options to chain multiple chargers along one circuit and they will take turns charging the cars connected. So you could easily have 2-3 (wow, six!) of them in a row and they would do their best to charge all your cars overnight.
I wondered how multi-vehicle charging would work.
So does it rotate every so often and all cars are partially charged, or does it charge one fully and then move on to the next?
Then there's the issue of apartment buildings. How do all those get charged? Chargers in every parking slot? That seems unfeasible.
I don't see how we're ready for EVs on a large scale. (I do freely admit though, in a lot of ways, I'm technologically-challenged!😄)
I do not know how the chargers share current. They probably do current limiting based on state of charge for each vehicle. Tesla also allows you to share your calendar with your car, so it's possible they are able to prioritize cars that have earlier departure times than others.
Apartment buildings have electricity, they just need to install the chargers in their parking areas... this is not much different than a house without a charger. People now advertise their home has an EV charger already installed--it is a selling feature! As EV ownership grows, apartment complexes are going to start advertising they have reserved charging spots for EVs as a way of attracting tenants. LOL, craigslist even allows you to search for this option.
Thank you for the info. Interesting about the calendar share, and it makes sense.
As far as apartment buildings, maybe some of the smaller ones have garages or something for parking. The larger ones, especially hi-rise, have parking lots like in front of a store or at the mall. When all tenants plus family members with cars need to charge at night, how will that happen without chargers in every parking slot? I just don't see that happening. Maybe I'm wrong.