Featured UK’s First Residential Avenue Fully Converted To Lamppost Charging

Now, they just have to keep them from being ICE'd.

 

How many will trip over the cords? Bet they are low charge-rate. Our town installed several, I see the same cars parked using them every time I go by there.

 

Remember their normal is 220v.

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I think it's 230volt? Australia is 240 and I think much of Asia.

 

In England the standard voltage is 230 V and the frequency is 50 Hz.

 

Interesting - I now read that some of Australia has moved to 230 volt - but not Queensland - mine is reading 244.6 at this present moment.

Apparently, but 1 July it should be nominally 230v - but within the "allowable range between 216 volts and 253 volts."

 

Much of Europe can do a "Level 3" AC, if the car has the right charger. But these are overnight chargers intended for the people without a home charger.

I think US electric to street lights is higher voltage than residential; I want to say 207V.

 

From what I've found, the street light voltage is either 110 or 220, depending on the neighborhood.

 

I might have been thinking of lighting in commercial buildings. The discussions here can merge together.

 

weird - but 277V is pretty common in the U.S. as well. 440-480v 3 phase, Line to neutral gives you 277V and that way, the location (typically commercial) doesn't have to install a separate transformer.
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That's how it is where I work.
Right outside my building is a 1MVA 13.2kV to 480V ine-to-line transformer (277V line-to-neutral). Every light in the building and all our street lights run on 277V.
To provide 120V for the offices and convenience outlets, there are several 480V to 208 line-to-line (120V line-to-neutral) transformers. One of those runs our 16 charging stations at 208V. That means my Prime charges at 3.2kW (208V * 15.6A actual) instead of the theoretical 3.8kW (240V * 16A).

Another interesting thing is that we have an experimental system that minimizes demand charges. It actually measures building load and, when the building load goes up, the available collective charging power goes down. It starts at 30kW shared among 16 chargers but when the building load goes up it can drop to 25kW or 20kW. It won't charge your car slower than 8A but it will modulate that on-and-off if needed if lots of people are charging and the building load is high. I've seen it charge at 8A for 50% of the time - slower than L1! You input how much you need and when you need it and the system tries to meet that request, including the requests of everyone else.