Residents of
Sutherland, Avenue W9 can now charge their Electric Vehicle at 24 lamp post placed at different positions along the road side using the
ubitricity smart socket technology. This project is completed in collaboration with Westminster city council, Siemens and Ubitricity, the total number includes 1300 installations, ubitricity will provide charging technology whereas Siemens will maintains and install the sockets. The street is now named as
"Electric Avenue, W9".
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| image credit - Seimens.com/uk |
Prior to the Projects Siemens did a research survey on the UK's population which they found is 36% of British people is thinking of to buy hybrid or electric vehicle as their next car, but out of them 40% was dropping the plan saying the reason lack of charge points is demotivating them, this led to the development of project lamppost charge points.
Lamppost charging enables peoples to charge their EV's at low cost, which also a renewable and energy friendly. Electric Avenue W9 is the first fully converted Electric Avenue. As per the charging technology it allows EV to be charged overnight upto range of 124-186 miles and hybrid vehicles could be charged in about two to three hours.
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| image credit - Seimens.com/uk |
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| image credit - Seimens.com/uk |
How does Lamppost work
Driver has to park their car at the converted lamppost, and connect to the ubitricity charger using integrated intelligent charging cable (smart cable) this cable is facilitated with kwh meter that keeps track record of monthly charge bill. users can also use this cable an app activating it through a QR code on the lamp.
due to lamppost charging people will find it convenient to charge their Electric vehicle during idle time and the total number of post seems to be sufficient to charge multiple users at a time. the space occupied by the individual lamppost is also very less that avoids the feeling of occupied by electric installations everywhere. each post can provide the rated power of 14.8kwh which far sufficient for an average charging time. the concept is really good since this avoids extra electrical installations which agains make it cheaper and less maintenance which makes it cheaper charging for the user.
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