Rethinking EV Chargers

I list down ways why modifying charger design thinking can work wonders

Housekeeping

We are launching new merch! Here’s a link to order HEPA grade filters for your MG ZS EV. Quite an appropriate merch, I’d say. The are not pollen filters that the service centres usually sell. Trust me, I know a thing or two about filtration. That’s my day job.

During both my 50k and 60k service, the filters were not available at the service center. Yet, they claim to have PM2.5 filtration. Lies, I say.

I made the filters. There’s a few left in stock if you’d like to buy. Drop me a message if you’d like to get HEPA filters for your non MG ZS EV. Terms and conditions applied as specified on the links.

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Manu, a Tata Nexon EV owner (175,000 on odometer) is doing a detailed survey for 1000+ EV owners. Results from previous survey are also public and available on this link. This is one of the detailed surveys out there. Take a look and give it 15 mins to fill in your responses! P.S.: I neither associated with nor have access to the survey results. The survey has been modified based on my feedback to Manu.

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Charging in India isn’t straightforward. Certainly not when you are the one responsible to set it up. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been discussing an idea with a few people in the industry. It isn’t a must have on all chargers. The CPOs should pick and choose the sites where they’d like to get these modifications done.

But all CPOs must experiment with this. I am talking about batteries.

EV Charging stations should come equipped with battery packs. Let’s look at some of the applications and real world examples from India where this is happening and where it should happen and where it can happen.