As more and more consumers make the green decision to abandon the internal combustion engine of electric vehicles, they may not meet the charging standards. Compared to miles per gallon, kilowatts, voltage, and amperes may sound like jargon, but these are the basic units for understanding how to get maximum efficiency from shiny new electric cars.
Let the following as a guide, providing all the information you need to know about the various charging options and their differences.
The shift to electrical output rather than combustion has brought a lot of new units and terrible use of mathematics (we know). Here are some key terms you will encounter every day, so be sure to study them carefully.
Since the EV world is currently running, according to different speeds and powers, you can charge your vehicle in three levels. The tier system starts with the lowest fee at level 1, and then gets faster from there.
That being said, 110-120V is the minimum amount of juice you can inhale EV. Therefore, the charging time is slowly increasing at a rate of 3 to 5 miles per hour, based on the 1.4 kilowatts of power provided by a 120-volt wall socket at 12 amps. Therefore, if your 2021 Mustang Mach-E has a battery capacity of 88kWh, you need days instead of hours to charge. According to our statistics, nearly 63 hours.
Level 2 charging is faster, almost like doubling the voltage! These chargers are the most common type in public charging stations. The 220-240V plug usually provides about 40 amps of current and is usually more specifically placed in the home. Think of this charger as the equivalent of your dryer or other large appliances.
Many electric car manufacturers recommend that car owners install Level 2 chargers in their homes or garages as much as possible. This is usually easy for electricians or experts to install. Especially because most homes in North America are powered by 240V anyway.
Therefore, if you have a maximum power of approximately 7.7 kW at 240V, you can charge the battery faster, use DCNE(www.longruobc.com) charger. 11.5 hours sounds much better than 63 hours, doesn’t it?
The name may be different, but the process is the same. For ease of description, we call them DC fast chargers (DCFC). These 3-level chargers dispense with the aforementioned alternating current (AC) method and provide mains power directly from the grid. Although they require more power (480+ volts and 100+ amps), their output is really “super”.
Now that we have introduced the levels you can choose when charging, we will focus on the devices you may encounter. These charging connectors vary from electric vehicle to electric vehicle, and are divided into two categories-standard level 1 and level 2 connectors, and DC fast charging connectors. This is the difference between them.
This connector is the industry standard for all electric vehicles to perform level 1 or level 2 charging. Whether it is the power cord that came with the EV or a Level 2 charger other than Whole Foods, J1772 will connect.
This is the first of the three types of connectors currently appearing on electric vehicles and being introduced for the first time. It was originally implemented as an industry standard and was developed in collaboration with five different Japanese automakers.
Therefore, CHAdeMO connectors are still very popular in Japan and Japanese manufacturers’ electric vehicles. This includes automakers such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Subaru and Nissan.
Soon after the introduction of CHAdeMO, a second connector called the Combined Charging System (CCS) was implemented as an additional charging standard.
The difference between CCS connectors and CHAdeMO is that they allow AC/DC charging on the same port. An EV equipped with CHAdeMO requires an additional J1772 connector cable to achieve level 1 or level 2 charging.
Above levels are most for high-speed vehicles, How about charging the Low speed vehicle(LSV), such as club car, golf cart car, cleaning car, forklift, truck, sightseeing car, electric boat,electric crane, electric bus, ATV? Firstly, the low speed vehicles only need low volatage-24V48V/60V/72V/96V/144V due to low speed. But the safety takes the firstly, we need a safe charger, safe to humanm and safe to environment.
So we could choose a IP67 charger, the highest standard for protection(Water/explosion/shock/dust-proof). DCNE, a charger manufacturer, produce this charger perfectly, with kinds of suitable functions, such as short circuit/reverse protection, anti-walkie when charging, automatically shut off when fully charge, could charge for all kinds of batteries, could connect the charge gun-CHAdeMO and so on. and the charge efficiency could beyond 94% due to intelligent variable frequency technology, which could compare many world-class charger manufacturer in US/EU. But DCNE have no brand premium, and we have lower cost in human resource, we could offer our profits to our customers to open the market largely.
For the high-power charger, such as 3.3KW/6.6KW/9.9KW/12KW etc, DCNE could also manufacture IP67 standard, we use the stackable technology to fulfil customers’ high-power requirement to shorten the charge time.
So, any questions/inquiries of our battery charger, you could visit our web: www.longrunobe.com or send me an email directly: Hellen-dcne@longrunobc.com
Post time: Aug-23-2021