Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
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Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#2A good first step to the chicken and egg problem. Living in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station.
>Local government entities and state agencies would not be allowed to operate public charging stations but could run their own stations to charge their vehicles.
I'm confused at why this was included in the regulation. Would companies really refuse to build stations without this stipulation? It reminds me a lot of telecommunications companies lobbying hard against municipal and related telecommunications services.
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#3Does this mean Tesla charging or ... ?
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#4I'll note that this is part of FHWA and DOE's Alternate Fuel Corridors program, and many states applied for and got similar grants.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/alternative_fuel_corrid...
https://afdc.energy.gov/corridors
Personally, I'm glad most of the money seems to be going to electric charging stations vs hydrogen and alternate hydrocarbon fueling stations. I would have preferred if the program had focused on installing charging stations at the ~1400 highway rest stations across the country vs giving grants to business to help them install stations.
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#5A good first step to the chicken and egg problem. Living in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station. >Local government entities and state agencies would not be allowed to operate public charging stations but could run their own stations to charge their vehicles. I'm confused at why this was included in the regulation. Would companies really refuse to build stations without this stipulation? It remi…
> in Wisconsin I have never seen an electrical charging station
As per the article, in Wisconsin any company that did would be regulated as a utility company; the law makes exemptions so non-utilities can set them up.
> Would companies really refuse to build stations without this stipulation?
The funds that are freed up are federal funds. No idea if that's a result of the above deregulation, or if those funds can't be used directly by municipalities.
Either way, as a business owner I'd be hard pressed to invest in putting chargers in my parking lot if the city came along and put in a bunch for street level parking.
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#6Does this mean Tesla charging or ... ?
Eventually it’s all NACS/J3400 in North America, which is the “Tesla Charger” but the J1772 wire protocol and some additions to help adoption. For example, you can run two phases from commercial 480v three phase commercial power to charge at 270v.
As a J1772 equipped driver, I don’t mind eventually needing an adapter since I don’t personally use DC fast charging very often.
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#7You have to wonder where they're finding contractors to competently build these and maintain them. Electrify America has a bad reputation for offline and broken stations, and Tesla might not bid on a contract like this. It would be cool if they built state capacity to just have charging stations.
Re: Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin
#8I'll note that this is part of FHWA and DOE's Alternate Fuel Corridors program, and many states applied for and got similar grants. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/alternative_fuel_corrid... https://afdc.energy.gov/corridors Personally, I'm glad most of the money seems to be going to electric charging stations vs hydrogen and alternate hydrocarbon fueling stations. I would have preferred if the program had focus…
Look where Tesla puts their Superchargers [1]. There’s a reason they go at businesses instead of rest areas. If you site them where they are at the whim of politics, your infra is in constant political/bureaucratic peril. Businesses are incentivized to keep customers coming.
Tangentially, the EV chargers are always out of order at O’hare and Midway airport parking lots. The Superchargers at the nearby gas station (ORD) [2] and the Target (MDW) [3] are always available. Tesla is incentivized to offer a highly available charging network (they don’t move EVs or receive revenue from other automakers otherwise); you want folks with an incentive to provide high uptime to own and operate these stations.
[1] https://supercharge.info/map
[2] https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/chicagoil...
[3] https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/ChicagoIL...
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You mean the lack of one? Or the possibility of one?