1st PHEV Prius Styled J1772 Charger now Operational

hill · May 14, 2010

When the new factory PHEV's & EV's get here, you won't necessarily be scrambling to find a charger. Besides Nissan's planned infrastructure, others will be installing J1772's as well.

Excerpt From Plugin America:

The First Public J1772: Another Leap Closer to Plugging In

The first Level 2 public J1772 charging station in the world went operational on Monday, May 3, some 10 miles from Sacramento Airport in Woodside, CA. As readers of this newsletter will know, this is a historic achievement, as J1772 is the universal standard that will charge all the coming new plug-ins in the U.S.

Tom Dowling, charging infrastructure manager with the Electric Auto Assn. and long-time EV driver (12 years!), had the J1772 interface installed. The charger itself, is a ClipperCreek model CS-40 with a 208 volt capacity.

Of course, there are no vehicles for the station to charge at the moment because there are no J1772-capable cars on the road yet. But at press time, Tom expected an early Leaf, slated to visit UC Davis, to visit the charging station for a photo op and a charge in mid-May. In a tantalizingly few months, there should be lots of J1772-capable cars craving a charge at the station.

"This installation of an SAE J1172(tm) charging station is an important milestone" Tom says. "Here we have a fully UL-approved charging station, cable, and connector. Suppliers are ready to provide fully-approved equipment in volume. We're actually ready for vehicles before the vehicles arrive. We don't have the problems the BMW Mini E trial had, where the vehicles arrived before all the approvals were complete, and we have a new universal standard connector, not a vehicle-manufacturer-specific connector. Now all we need are the vehicles."
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I know there are some companies that are already driving the PHEV factory Prius (neither you nor I can get one ... yet). That must mean SOME of these chargers are in use at the company's locations. So this one is the 1st publicly accessible charger. I thought that was kind of cool. No privately owned vehicles use this format yet. Even so, the chargers are coming. Won't it be cool, when PHEV's & EV's are so prevalent, that you may find a charging station is unavailable, because they're all occupied?
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SlowTurd · May 14, 2010

i wonder who will be the first idiot to lick the end of the plug and electrocute themselves.

hopefully Sikes

drees · May 18, 2010

The end of the plug is not electrified with the J1772 until the charge and car have confirmed a good connection.

F512M · May 18, 2010

drees said: ↑

The end of the plug is not electrified with the J1772 until the charge and car have confirmed a good connection.
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You're exactly right.

1st PHEV Prius Styled J1772 Charger now Operational

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