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Is the
electric car charging
station of the future an
RV?
"Coming up with a
charging system for RVs
would help open a niche
market. Technically,
it's not impossible."
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3/14/2011 -
The following extract from an article is
by, and reproduced from, Michael
Kanellos, greentechmedia.com -
Link to
full story
Is the electric car charging station of
the future a Winnebago?
It could be in some circumstances,
speculated Luis Ramirez, CEO of the
Industrial Solutions Group at General
Electric. Ramirez recently met with some
consumers and customer groups in Oregon,
and some asked whether it would be
possible to use the engine of an RV to
charge an EV. RV drivers often tow cars
behind them as they travel on down the
road. Coming up with a charging system
for RVs would help open a niche market.
Technically, it's not impossible.
Ramirez and other GE executives are in
the middle of a road trip to promote
products such as the WattStation
charging station and to create awareness
about some of the issues that will face
companies when EVs begin to hit the road
in large numbers. It wasn't your usual
Silicon Valley audience. Instead of
investors and job seekers, most of the
attendees were executives from parking
lot companies, some AAA representatives
and many electricians -- in other words,
the people that are actually going to
make this happen.
(See RoTi article:
GE National Electric Vehicle Experience
Tour)
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Some
of the issues being discussed by GE and EV
experts:
Theft and security could become a problem
for public charging stations. "There is a
lot of copper in a charging station. We do
have to worry about security," said Ramirez.
Speaking of commodity metals, scientists in
GE labs are also working on electric motors
that don't require rare earth metals and use
nonmetallic heat sinks. This is a
significant development because rare earth
materials like neodymium oxide have zoomed
from $20,000 a ton in 2009 to $165,000 a ton
this month according to my own spot check
today.
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Direct current is going to take
off, Ramirez added. While the grid
delivers AC power, distributing and
using DC power within microgrids,
datacenters or office buildings could
help conserve energy by reducing the
number of conversions power must undergo
before it gets used. The conversions
occur because most electrical equipment
-- batteries, motors, computers --
actually run on DC. In a typical data
center, power might get converted five
times before it can be used to run
servers; in a DC data center, the
conversions can be reduced to one. Fewer
conversions, fewer losses.
"With the right conversion architecture,
you can bring efficiency to the 92 to 95
percent level," he said, "DC
architectures also use a lot less
metal."
One area, however, where DC will need
some work is in high-speed charging
stations. High-speed, or Level 3,
charging is far faster than conventional
charging and it relies on DC power. High
speed charging, however, can accelerate
the aging process in batteries. Research
in this area is ongoing.
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