The high cost of EV (electric vehicle) chargers may lead you to believe that they’re complex systems. But with the exception of Tesla’s Supercharger, that isn’t true. They’re actually quite simple — basically just glorified switches. All of the nitty gritty charging details are the responsibility of the car’s onboard circuitry. With that in mind, […]
That seems great for things like apartment chargers, or other rentals that don’t need fast charging, but are hard or expensive to install home style chargers
This seems to only be a substitute for low-current single phase chargers.
Here in the EU, cars charge between 11kW and 22kW off of 3 phase. This isn’t accomplished with an simple smart charger.
Also this is completely negating fault detection, safety relays, charge current negotiation, etc…
That seems great for things like apartment chargers, or other rentals that don’t need fast charging, but are hard or expensive to install home style chargers