EV Charger installations

EV chargers and the future

Electric vehicles are the future of transport for individuals and business.

Many factors make an EV a great choice for anyone, with the environmental factors playing a big part in our lives and future generations as well as increases in fuel prices.

With advancements in technology and vehicle tech, leading to better vehicle millage and range of vehicles to choose with more and more future developements an electric vehicle investment makes sense.

EVNEX EV charger as pictured, has a massive amount of in app features from setting charging times for cheaper rates e.g off peak, tracking your charging costs, and controlling your solar charging etc

They also have the capability of load control and will reduce charging rate dependant on household load at the time, eliminating and overload on the electrical circuit,

Best of all, the are a NZ brand
Go support them https://www.evnex.com/

Whats is an EV Charger?

There are three basic types of charging.
Slow, fast and rapid / hyper.

And 2 types of home power supplies,
single phase and Three phase

Slow being any charger that does <16A of charging e.g. a normal power point. these charge between 2KW @10A and 3.68KW @16A

Fast being a 32A connection, charging upto 4x as fast as a slow charger, these charge at 7.4KW @ 32A approx 40KM per hour.
These are most common to install at a residential home

Rapid / super charger are generally the ones found at gas stations and dedicated EV charger sites, these can charge at 50KW+
Most sites can be found here using plugshare
https://www.plugshare.com/

Most homes will be originally a single phase setup. Most home can be changed to a three phase setup, dependent on the local lines company permission. In upgrading your home to a three phase setup, if your electric vehicle allows, you can charge your EV at 22KW, which is approx 120KM per hour

FAQ

If charging at home, its equivalent to 30c per liter
(can get as low as 15c during night rate times)

Super charging / hyper charging comes at a costs for the quickness they provides
usually 30c per KW + per minute charge

If doing the math, we will use a tesla model 3
a 50KWH battery will take 1 hour to charge on a 50KW Super charger.
50*0.3 = $15 charging costs + 60* 0.3 = $20 per minute charge
An average mileage on a charge is 265KM
265 / 35 = $7.6 per 100km. Not bad!

The most cost effective solution is to charge at home, on a night rate to reduce the KW hour rate and eliminate the per minute charge rate

Currently, companies are offering and will continue to offer and increase incentive offers as EV become more popular and environmental policies are introduced.

There are very few incentives in New Zealand at the moment for EV vehicles but there are still offers available.

1. Clean car rebate - upto $7000 on new EV purchases and upto $3000 on used EVs

2. Power companies are offering EV specific power plans.
These discounts include a credit of money off an EV charger installation + half price at night time rates as well as better solar buy back incentives

3. Banks offering low rate loans / zero deposit loans for EV purchasing and EV charger installations e.g.
ANZ Good Energy Home Loan
Westpac EV Loan

The best way to make use of your EV to ensure that you are not only helping the environment and reducing your carbon emissions but reduce your costs is to understand electricity costs and pricing and using it too your advantage.
Understanding what is on offer from power companies and using it effectively e.g. night rates and adjusting you EV to charge at those cheaper times ensure your getting the most out of your electric vehicle investment

The first EV dating back to to the 1832 by Robert Anderson.

The last 30 years the world of technology has seen massive advancements. The internet / WWW having its first browsers in 1992. In 1997, GM invented the EV1 with a range of around 100KM, First hybrid vehicle, Toyota Prius in 1997, 2006 Tesla motors starts production
smartphones in 2007 with Iphone 1, First smart TV in 2007.....

In 20 years, technology has accelerated beyond comprehension and with the ever increasing advancement of technology electric vehicles have become the next generation of transport. By looking at the past, and how far technology has come, you can guarantee in the next 20 years, its going to accelerate again beyond comprehension. Technology has shaped the future to points where its almost impossible to disconnect and return back to the old, mainly, because the ease of life and life satisfaction increases with technology advancements.

Driverless cars? Flying cars? Self- charging? 1,000,000mile battery life? 1000mile driving range? Electric airplanes? Electric boats? underground motorways?.....