I first saw this company and their solution recently. The solutions they offer look excellent for solving the last difficulty charging at home for renters and apartments!
Hi again, Ryan! 👋 We're glad to see you here and appreciate your continued interest in our solutions! It's great to hear that you see the potential of what we're doing to make home charging easier for those in Multi-Family Dwellings. If you have any questions or want to learn more, don’t hesitate to reach out - we're always happy to help! ⚡🏢
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These solutions kill off more and more anti-EV rhetoric. But we should be highlighting that ICE car owners don't have access to fuel at home. It's not a necessity, it's just a bonus that only EV owners can enjoy. We can charge at home, we can sell unused power back to the grid, we can use excess power to run appliances and we can get power for free at various destination hubs. No equivalent is available to ICE owners.
Thank you, Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, for the fantastic interview with our CEO, David Corbeil, at Everything Electric Canada! We appreciate the opportunity to share how RVE is transforming EV charging solutions for multi-unit buildings. Your support means a lot! 🤝⚡
Interesting coincidence of timing: Just this Monday I passed the first sign I've seen of a "multi-family dwelling" ( not sure if apartments or condos ) advertising on-site EV charging stations at their entrance. [On SE Ellesworth Rd, just north of SR 14 in Vancouver ( the other one, in Washington ).]
I have been literally talking about this very thing with my friends who want to buy electric cars but can't afford to buy a home in expensive markets like New York and Los angeles. Also, I'm a landlord and I rent rooms out of my house. It would be nice to have a small kind of system like this that would allow me to give my tenants ability to charge their cars but also not have to pay for the electricity. I don't really understand how this product could help me with that solution
right now a modern apartment complex has a pool, kids play area, gym, meeting area, laundry facilities, et al. why? because they need those to get residents. very soon EV chargers will be added to that list.
I'm telling you now as a contractor that box will cost thousands to install. I don't see any skilled and licensed contractors installing that for a few hundred bucks. Permits, inspection, code compliance, and how the Inspector feels that day are major factors. For the home owners look at what it cost to have a 50amp receptacle installed 10' from you panel. Now multiply that by 2-10 for commercial applications that have more stringent regulations. I guess if you putting in 20-50 of these it could drive the per unit install down a little. Anyway some has to cover the cost.
Renters move and default electric payment ,who pays the monthly bill? This Transport crew will not think of the ' Why Not' questions . They are silly dreamers .
IIUC, this is a system that load-balances EV demand at a premise by turning power off to various receptacles that feed EVSEs. And it has a hub for programming the priorities of load-shedding. Honestly, this doesn't sound enticing to me. It draws from a customer meter. I don't see the advantage of this over providing onsite networked EVSEs, and manage load-shedding at the EVSE level rather than this ON/OFF approach. EVSEs can tell connected vehicles that less power is available, dynamically. That's in the J1772 standard and load management is already widely managed this way. Networking them to manage charging demand at the EVSE level makes more sense to me than this "turn off the power for an hour (or whatever)" system.
Big incentives should be used for providing Level 2 charging for ALL developments. I’m excited for the wireless induction charging that should be affordable in the next 10 years which will reduce some constraints in parking design.
Each apartment tenant will be pay directly for the electric meter charges . When the tenant moves and defaults on the electric bill , the apartment owner will be forced to pay to reactivate the charging meter. Apartment owners will not install these apartment charging systems . FORGET ABOUT IT.
Every layer of complexity you add to the charging system has the potential for failure. When a component of the charging unit fails you have no charging.
As someone who has installed EV chargers at a condo that was not designed for then, the issue isn't amperage, it's billing. There is no reserved spot per unit, that's impossible. There's just the "EV spots" for those who charge and an app to determine who to bill. The chargers need to be robust, cost effective, both for instance and using, and be able to determine who is charging and only operate for those residents.
You might need to go back and re-watch. this unit is specifically designed to tie in with the meter of homes - be retrofittable , and work with assigned parking spaces.
This device typically won't live at the parking spot, but in a closet full of meters and circuit breakers. And I don't think you need a closed-circuit camera at each parking space anyway; typically you position a camera to watch a dozen or more parking spaces.
