Charging station

A charging station is a point that supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) and filling of compressed air vehicles . This is different from a exchange station, a place to swap discharged batteries by charged ones.

Charging fees are be determined by local governments with some expected to offer the service for free.

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Places

Charging stations can be mainly found on the roads, streets, parking lots and taxi stands.

Infrastructures

Project Better Place was started by Shai Agassi on October 29th, 2007, focused on building massive scale Electric Recharge Grids as infrastrucutre supporting the deployment of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) in countries around the world.

In France, Électricité de France (EDF) and Toyota are installing recharging points for PHEVs on roads, streets and parking lots.^[1]. EDF is also partnering with Elektromotive, Ltd.^[2] to install 250 new charging points over six months from October 2007 in London and elsewhere in the UK.^[3] Recharging points also can be installed for specific uses, as in taxi stands.

See also

• Battery leasing
• Filling station
• IEEE
• V2G and V2Green

References

1. ^ Électricité de France (5 September 2007) "EDF et Toyota annoncent un partenariat technologique en Europe relatif aux véhicules hybrides rechargeables" press release retrieved 10 October 2007
2. ^ Elektromotive, Ltd. (2007) "Elektromotive: The ultimate zero-emission transport system" company web site retrieved 26 October 2007
3. ^ Reynolds, L. (October 11, 2007) "UK to install 250 new public charging stations by next spring". The Battery Vehicle Society retrieved 26 October 2007