{"id":201681,"date":"2024-12-15T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ev-charging-infrastructure-isnt-just-for-road-trippers"},"modified":"2024-12-15T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:26:05","slug":"ev-charging-infrastructure-isnt-just-for-road-trippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ev-charging-infrastructure-isnt-just-for-road-trippers","title":{"rendered":"EV charging infrastructure isn\u2019t just for road trippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ev-charging-infrastructure-isnt-just-for-road-trippers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That means digging all the trenching and building out all the electrical distribution equipment on site, if not all the chargers, with a microgrid that\u2019s capable of working as well in the future with 12 MW of power as it does with just 4 MW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is the same challenge that all of these large sites are facing\u2014it takes an extremely long time to get the power from the utility. Meanwhile, you don\u2019t need it immediately. So how do you create this sort of staged future-proof solution where you\u2019re not having to open the roads multiple times? You want one construction phase and you want that site to support the future demand,\u201d Putignano said.<\/p>\n<p>For fleets that need their own private charging infrastructure, there are other things to think about, too. Energy management solutions are as important here\u2014microgrids as well as battery storage and battery-buffered chargers will play an important role, for example. But not every energy management solution is charger-agnostic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2024\/10\/if-you-own-a-juicebox-ev-charger-you-need-to-read-this\/\">the collapse of charger manufacturers like Juicebox<\/a> and Tritium highlight the perils of being stuck in a walled garden belonging to a dead company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That means digging all the trenching and building out all the electrical distribution equipment on site, if not all the chargers, with a microgrid that\u2019s capable of working as well in the future with 12 MW of power as it does with just 4 MW. \u201cI think this is the same challenge that all of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}