Electric Vehicle Charging
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EV Charging Just Got Smarter
Compatible with the My Leviton App, you can now take control of your entire home, including Smart electric vehicle charging, lighting, and load center.
- Schedule charging sessions
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- View all Smart devices on one dashboard
- View charging status
- Receive fault notifications
Ensure a proper installation, every time!
Following installation many are eager to begin charging their vehicle, but it is critical to verify the EV charger is up and running at its optimal performance. One way to do this is by having the contractor/installer use an EV tester. These devices take the necessary precautions to ensure the Leviton EV Series charger operates reliably and provides a seamless charging experience. Through the simulation of a vehicle connection, they enable professionals to assess the charger’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi networks, maintain a reliable connection, and communicate with the external systems or mobile applications. We recommend getting a tester.
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All Leviton EV Charging Stations are ENERGY STAR Certified
According to Energy Star estimates, if every single EV Charger sold in the U.S. met their criteria. the savings in energy costs would grow to more than 17 million and 280 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions would be avoided.
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EV Series Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with My Leviton
This concise guide outlines the EV Series Charger options, including ordering information and mounting. Some additional facts concerning charge times, rebates and incentives are also contained within.
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We turn lampposts into electric vehicle charge points
We know that at-home or near-home charging is the most desired charging location for EV drivers. However, in many towns and cities, convenient off-street charging is largely unavailable to residents. Using existing street light infrastructure, ubitricity can help local authorities in the Rapid expansion of public charging infrastructure.
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your electric vehicle charger.
That’s the model pole-mounted EV chargers take: drivers sidle up to the curb and scan a QR code via an app to lower a J1772 connector. Electric utility poles house the chargers, making the tech easy to access. Drivers only pay for the electricity used within a three-hour time limit.
Energy provider National Grid recently installed the tech in Melrose, Massachusetts, which is the latest city to explore the concept. Los Angeles currently hosts over 430 chargers on city streetlights and 44 on utility poles. With cheap installation costs (traditional ground stations cost 70% more, according to National Grid) and integration into typical parking spots, pole-mounted chargers take advantage of existing infrastructure to simplify EV charging.
The question of where to put the chargers has long plagued the EV industry. In Los Angeles, they are nestled in parking lots at workplaces and other high-traffic sites, including the Kia Forum and, eventually, Taco Bell. Elon Musk wants to elevate the experience with drive-in-style service at his proposed charging site in Hollywood. A number of Los Angeles-based startups are also trying to make EV charging affordable and accessible. One is planning to make charging station rest stops—complete with restaurants and Wi-Fi.
But California is already home to a number of EV charging stations and has more registered EVs than other states. For states that don’t boast as many EVs, luxury charging stations with movie screenings probably won’t encourage more people to go electric. Tech that adds to existing infrastructure, like the pole-mounted charging station, could make expanding charging stations more practical.
The idea still faces some challenges, as integrating changes into neighborhoods can incur the wrath of homeownersassociations. Some critics believe that curbside charging could discourage the expansion of bus and bike infrastructure by encouraging car use. But Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in the House earlier today, could incentivize more people to buy electric cars. As concerns grow about the climate crisis, utility pole-mounted charging stations could dangle a solution to the gap in available charging infrastructure.—Kristin Snyder
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The ‘Street lamp charger’ is coming
The concept, of charging electric cars directly off roadside lighting (street lamps), is as simple as it is Smart. Requests for the street lamp variant of the ‘Berlin’ charging point are coming in thick and fast.
“The integration of power sockets in existing infrastructure like street lamps [. ]” is a “[. ] fundamentally available technical solution”. This prompts the authors of Germany’s nationwide call for financial funding to set up a charging infrastructure as part of the ‘Immediate Clean Air Programme 2017 to 2020’ [Sofortprogramm Saubere Luft 2017 bis 2020] on 4 January this year. The Ministry employees are also thinking along the right lines with their depiction of ‘Street lamp charging’ as a low-cost charging infrastructure, and they further reason: “At present, affordable charging facilities are absent in many applications, at places where people park for extended periods and could charge their vehicles, for example overnight. This prevents those affected from being able to consider electric vehicles as a genuine alternative form of mobility. One example of this would be users who either do not have access to a fixed parking space or who are not able to equip the one they have with a charging point”.
The Berlin start-up and partner of Bender GmbH Co. KG, ebee Smart technologies GmbH, would have to formulate its founding myth in a similar way. In fact, the vision right from day one of this manufacturer of charging infrastructure, founded back in 2011, was to use the electrical infrastructure already in the public domain for the charging of electric vehicles. What has emerged from this is the ‘Berlin’ charging point, developed and sold by ebee. Its slimline hardware enables it to be fitted to street lamps quickly and easily, as well as to walls, pillars or to ‘urban furniture’.
Minimum cost, small footprint
“Just drill three holes in each mast and it takes an electrician just thirty minutes to install” – according to ebee CEO Robert Weyrauch, that is all that is needed to connect the ‘Berlin’ charging point to a street lamp. The minimum requirements for installation, according to ebee, are a minimum mast diameter of 115 mm and a minimum mast wall thickness of about 5 mm. In terms of electrical supply lines, a lamp connection phase should be able to support an additional burden of at least 10 A: This equates to a minimum charging scenario of 2.3 kW. Provided that a 3-phase connection exists, it is possible to increase this scenario to 22 kW. Finally, and above all, it must be possible to park directly beside a street lamp. If there is a footpath between parking space and street lamp over which the charging cable would have to be routed, the ebee team considers that to be one of the few ‘genuine’ reasons to obstruct finalisation of this project.
Right from the outset, development specialists at ebee were clear in their own minds that their product would have to live up to the challenging future requirements for intelligent control of charging scenarios. Here, the investment and production partnership that was established in 2014 between Bender and ebee, marked a milestone along the road to today’s market success. The slimline hardware concept of the ‘Berlin’ charging point arose through Bender’s development of a compact charging controller. Thanks to the Bender CC612 charging controller, the ebee street lamp solution is now equipped with highly advanced charging intelligence that will satisfy the challenging requirements faced by the complex charging scenarios of the future (Smart charging).
For municipal operators, the benefits of street lamp charging are fairly self-evident: Using existing electrical infrastructure dispenses with the need to engage in costly earthworks and installation work. In addition, street lamp charging points can be dismantled and relocated rapidly as needs change. This makes their installation interesting, not only during new-build work but also during the modernisation or renovation of street lighting.
Technical reservations cleared away
Nonetheless, some mayors and municipal utility providers still have some reservations about the decision to go ahead with ‘street lamp charging’ in their communities. These are founded upon the allegedly excessively long charging times involved at street lamps due to their lower charging power. Furthermore, a few view the problem in terms of the absence of separate power accountability, or in the insufficient cross section of power lines in the street lighting grid. Often, the question arises as to where the electrical power should come from for charging points during daylight hours, while the lighting is switched off. “In most cases, it is usually possible to clear away the technical reservations in the course of the initial meeting with a customer”, adds Robert Weyrauch. Since the changeover of public lighting to LED technology, there is usually sufficient surplus current in the street lamps. Due to its ‘close-to-TAB’ concept, the ‘Berlin’ charging point also makes it possible to set up a public meter station together with electronic, MID-calibrated domestic meters and intelligent data communication. In the case of thin cross sections of electrical power lines, charge point performance can be restricted by the intelligent charge controller.
Ultimately, the day-night problem simply does not arise in the case of a distribution network, given that street lamps are connected separately to a main line, which means that even during daylight hours, there is sufficient electricity available up to the cable transition point. In the case of a lighting grid, i.e. where the switching of lights down complete streets does not take place until dusk, existing phases can be switched over to continuous current. This means that electrical power is being supplied to street lamp charging points during daylight hours. The disconnectable circuit between lighting and charging point is controlled by ripple control and/or by an interface on the charging point controller.
charging points than filling stations: Parking = Charging
The true benefits of charging from a street lamp really come into their own in the public precincts in towns and cities. specifically wherever a shortage of private garages oblige people to park beside the kerb, and in roadside parking bays. This is where the cultural mobility side of ‘street lamp charging’ really gains in significance. The fear that the 2.3 kW to 7 kW charging power envisaged for single-phase street lamp charging points may be insufficient for users can be countered by an old saying about petrol stations, ‘seek, fill, drive’. In contrast, street lamp charging points are a cost-efficient way of delivering widespread availability of charging points within the public domain. This dispenses with the need for ‘seeking’. Given that most drivers only cover short distances most of the time, there is no need for full charging. topping up is all that is involved. Finally, many parking situations, for example at a workplace or during the night, involve vehicles being parked for long periods. At the end of which, batteries can be fully charged, since even a 3.6 kW street lamp charging point delivers an hourly charge equivalent to about 25 kilometres of driving.
The future of street lamp charging is starting to gain headway. For example, ebee exclusively supplies the winner of the Berlin tender, Allego, with lantern charging points for public operation. Street lamp pilot projects based on ebee’s ‘Berlin’ charging point have been implemented in Bottrop, Aachen Hanover and Cologne. In November 2017, the power grid operator E.DIS inaugurated its first ‘Berlin’ street lamp charging point in the Brandenburg district of Grossbeeren. To date, a further three ebee-Bender customer companies have achieved success with domestic and international sales of their own street lamp charging point solutions, each one based on the CC612 charge controller.
To an increasing extent, infrastructure operators are starting to become aware of the potential of charging at street lamps. Now car drivers are being asked to become inspired in future by the ebee motto for charging in public precincts:
“We don’t drive to charge. We charge while parked (beside a street lamp)”.
Dipl. Pol. Peter Wilhelm, ebee Smart technologies GmbH, Berlin