Public Chargers Up Poles? Seriously?

Much will depend on the age of the delivery infrastructure. The very oldest stuff would have been based on incandescent but anything installed in the last 40 or so years would have been based on SOX or SON and most of these lamps would have been <100W in residential areas.
I'd still say an upgrade of supply would be necessary.
Agreed @Alb , which is why I mentioned originally. There are however a lot of streets that are more than 40 years old, most likely the majority. A lot of which would be streets of e.g. terraced Victorian/ 30s/ 40s houses etc. etc. where the street charging is needed.
 
So a standard slow charger is 22kw. Even with an old sodium lamp at 100w that's the power for 220 lights. I can't imagine there are many places where the existing supply can manage that extra load.
 
So a standard slow charger is 22kw. Even with an old sodium lamp at 100w that's the power for 220 lights. I can't imagine there are many places where the existing supply can manage that extra load.
No a standard slow (called fast) charger is 7kw and it's very unlikely that you'll ever see anything stronger attached to a lamp post. Most* EV's these days have a 7kw AC charger onboard, for cost / size reasons and because very few homes will have 3phase power to utilise anything bigger than 11kw, so that's the most any of them are going to be able to pull from the lamp post.

* Until you get into the much bigger more expensive EV's where you'll sometimes find 22kw chargers fitted, but even these will happily sit on a 7kw charge point.
 
No a standard slow (called fast) charger is 7kw and it's very unlikely that you'll ever see anything stronger attached to a lamp post. Most* EV's these days have a 7kw AC charger onboard, for cost / size reasons and because very few homes will have 3phase power to utilise anything bigger than 11kw, so that's the most any of them are going to be able to pull from the lamp post.

* Until you get into the much bigger more expensive EV's where you'll sometimes find 22kw chargers fitted, but even these will happily sit on a 7kw charge point.
You're absolutely right, my mistake. I still suspect that the standard supply to the street lamps is not going to be adequate to support the 32A supply needed for EACH charger.
 
Yeah, depends on the local council and how much power they have to spare I suppose. But it's not an issue that's going to hit hard tomorrow. It will take years for sales and charger need to ramp up so hopefully plenty of time for those responsible to get the infrastructure in place.
 
Until I started this thread, I had no idea that several companies were already installing street chargers! Just found this company, char.gy that has a network in several cities. Lots in some areas of London and Coventry and now Leicester. They have quite a few 3kw chargers affixed to lamp-posts. Realise that is very slow but their chargers are mainly in suburban streets. They do have some higher rated ones dotted around.
A lot will be intended for residents, I suppose, not travellers.
 
Brighton and Hove in UK has 200 lamppost chargers. It how I live in a 1st floor flat with no off street parking and can still charge my MG5.
Is it an EB charger? I read that some of these lamp-post chargers are free, is the one you use free as well? I also read somewhere that the parking spaces are not dedicated for EVs so you probably get problems with getting a space to enable you to charge - is that so?
 
Is it an EB charger? I read that some of these lamp-post chargers are free, is the one you use free as well? I also read somewhere that the parking spaces are not dedicated for EVs so you probably get problems with getting a space to enable you to charge - is that so?
Yes Electric Blue. They are not free. You need to use an app on your phone to pay. A small number are dedicated to EVs. My annual mileage is small enough that 1) I only start to worry if my range drops below 70miles 2) I can mostly go up to 3 days from thinking about charging to finding a space.

If I needed to charge up every night then it would be an issue but for previously explained reasons so far it has been fine for the past 12 months. I have never had to use a Rapid charger.
 
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