Slightly oversized companies like Siemens do have an advantage: ideally, one business area can profit from the development work of others. At times, one of the business areas is missing (think VDO), but a topic that’s out of sight doesn’t have to be out of mind. That’s when the industry automation division constructs a charging point for electrical vehicles.
The charge current can be set within the range from 6 A to 80 A. The device is designed for a supply voltage of 24 V DC. Charger controllers are the core components of electric vehicle charging points. They control the power arm of the charging post, monitor the charging cable, and communicate with the electric vehicle. The charger controllers CM-100 and CM-230 belong to the new Siemens Siplus ECC product family, which enables simple implementation of applications for charging electric vehicles. The Siemens Siplus ECC range also includes pre-installed, tested and ready-to-use function units for integration into electric vehicle charging solutions. With these, system vendors could have the opportunity to implement a complete charging solution at a comparatively low cost, and then expand it with their own individual metering and billing system.
Car charging by induction seems the way to go,You park your car over a charging pad or you might drive it slowly over a pad and snatch some power from a pad in the road.
Any ideas?
Posted by: Fane Murray | 09/28/2011 at 09:50 PM