[RE-wrenches] Electric car chargers

[frenergy]

William,

        I would have to concur with Randy's chart pretty much.  A couple 
months a go we bought a 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV.  I had just recently completed 
an upgrade system here (4.5KW PV, Classic, 84 KW of Rolls batts and a 
Radian).  We are off-grid.

        The research I did before purchasing our charger is the currently 
available chargers max at 7.7 KW.  Almost all of the level II chargers (240 
volt) charge at one rate...I was able to find a charger made by Siemens that 
has an adjustable charge rate which has proved very valuable being off-grid 
(EG: varying solar resource, charging window, departure time, battery temp, 
SOC, etc).

        I'm not sure if there is any effort to market a residential charger 
that will put out more than 7.7KW.

Bill
Feather River Solar Electric
Taylorsville, CA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Miller" <william at millersolar.com>
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 4:29 PM
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Electric car chargers


> Friends:
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> I would not bother this group with a question I could easily answer for 
> myself with a little research.  I thought I could find the answer to this 
> question on line but it has been very elusive:
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> Does anyone know the ratings for the available high power electric car 
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> Thanks in advance.
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