A few essentials about electric vehicle charging stations.

Why is it important to obtain electric vehicle charging stations?

The short answer is: Because Electric Vehicles (EVs) are important to your constituents. And by satisfying their needs, you derive a number of direct and indirect benefits for your organization.

What are EV charging levels?

Another important charge station feature is its charging level. These are categorized as Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. They range from low-level electric power (takes a long time to charge,) to high-level electric charging delivery (fast charge).

What makes up an electric vehicle charging station system?

• Physical components, such as internal electronics, controllers, cord, EV-compatible plug and telecommunications devices to share data and enable network connections.
• Software applications to manage the charging, billing, driver access, and administration of an EVSE program.
• On-going service to maintain physical and software components as well as provide customer service to both EVSE owners and their driver constituents.

Physical components

Charge stations incorporate a number of assemblies and controllers.

• The power electronics assembly is the guts of a charge station. Functionally, it supplies the power to the EV's onboard battery charger. Physically, it's made up of wires, capacitors, and transformers and other electronic parts.
• The charge controller serves as the "street smarts" of the charge station. It oversees basic charge functions, like turning a charger on/off, metering of power usage, and storing of key bits of real-time and event data.
• The network controller provides the brains of the charge station. It enables the station to communicate with its network (via an on-board telecommunications device) so that managers can monitor it and review historical event data. It also controls user access to a charging station through a series of white (authorized) or black (unauthorized) lists.
• The charge station cable and connector plug into the target electric vehicle. These components provide the conduit for a charge to be delivered.

For more information about electric vehicle charging station software, see our page on the EV Connect Charge Cloud.

For more information about the components of your optimal electric vehicle charging station infrastructure, contact EV Connect today.

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