LinkedIn AFC energy this morning26 May 2020 12:21
AFC on LinkedIn this morning Businesses don’t like idle time. It costs money, but produces no revenue. Currently visits to the petrol station do not make up much idle time. But, if #EV’s are going to be rolled out and make big inroads into business travel a lot more idle time appears to be on the cards, with 90 minute charges whilst people sit around, allegedly drink coffee if the pundits are to be believed, and generally do unproductive things. Simple modelling shows that the true cost to a business of a charge due to lost time (and a cup of service station coffee) is as much as 8 times the cost of the electricity for the charge itself. On the basis of some very simple assumptions it can be shown that the true cost of a charge (lost time plus electricity) of a 22 kW charge rate is more than double that of a 150 kW ultra rapid charge even if the cost of the electricity is substantially more per kWh for the premium service high speed charge. Fundamentally then, for any Finance Director the speed of the charge is far more important to his/ her business than the cost of the charge itself. So, as Maverick so eloquently put it in the film Top Gun: “I feel the need, the need for speed!” Tom Pollard Adam Bond#Hydrogen #EVCharging #EVInfrastructure #NeedForSpeed