Madison Gas and Electric Installing 18 Additional ChargePoint Stations; 24 in Total In and Around Dane County
28 September 2010
Madison Gas and Electric plans to install 18 additional ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles in and around Dane County. The new stations will bring the total number of ChargePoint stations to 24 within the community.
The new Level II (240V/30A) charging station allocation and installation is made possible through a Department of Energy grant to MGE and will be available to the community for the duration of the three-year public demonstration project. Locations for the charging stations are still being determined but are expected to be located in 10 highly trafficked areas within the community.
All charging locations will be free and available to the public. Coulomb Technologies’ Midwest distributor Chicago-based Carbon Day Automotive is partnering with MGE to distribute the stations as part of the project.
Madison is planning for the widespread adoption of electric vehicles today. In order to learn about time of use, length of charging sessions, the amount of electricity used and how EV charging coincides with home electricity use, we are looking for volunteers to help us collect this data. The data collected will assist us in how we can better serve our customers and plan for EV in our community.
—Laura Williams, MGE Market Development Manager
Consumers interested in the program can sign up at the MGE site for more information.
I wonder how the Leaf will do in those cold Madison winters.
Posted by: stephenboulet | 28 September 2010 at 12:59 PM
It's nice to see charging stations popping up here and there, but I would like to know how they were designed. These only have 7200 watts. So it would take about three hours to charge a 25 kwh battery to 90%. Actually thats not bad. If it's in a highly trafficed area like a shopping mall. People tend to park their cars for an hour or more there and can put a 30% charge on the battery. 7200 watts would be unreasonable at a highway rest stop or service station. Nobody wants to stop there for more than thirty minutes. Charging stations need to be installed where people work. That's where they park for eight hours and can get a 100%charge from a low current and inexpensive power supply. High traffic areas need quick chargers, which will put out 60 kw.
Posted by: Zhukova | 29 September 2010 at 04:19 AM
Murphy Oil USA is installing Eaton 60 kw quick chargers in some locations. Eventually they may have them at all 1,000 Murphy gas stations. If I was on the Murphy-Eaton team, I would call for contracting other independent service stations and other establishments every 100 miles along a coast to coast route.
Then you would have a lot of interest in driving from New York to LA in a BEV just to be the first to do it. After that to set a lowest time record. It would be great marketing for Murphy-Eaton, Obama, and car makers too.
Posted by: Zhukova | 29 September 2010 at 05:53 AM