Infrastructure Track at the 2013 Battery Show, Part 1

The 2013 Battery Show and Electric Vehicle/Hybrid show featured a Charging Infrastructure track on Wed. Sept. 15, where many experts on public and workplace charging provided presentations on this vital component for EV adoption.

The 2.3kW Solar Array generates approximately 16kWhrs per day, which are stored, ready for use in the 22kWhr battery storage (Photo Credit: Dan Zeppa)The moderator of this track was Desmond Wheatley, Pres and CEO, Envision Solar, a enthusiastic and well-informed advocate of all-things-electric. He had his own presentation on his company's off-the-grid solar EV sharing canopy with Li-Ion storage technology.

Anyway, Desmond has some flair and is exactly what the EV business community needs. He punctuated, via his Scottish accent, his presentation with many contextual facts around energy's large scale.

One fact revealed how it took New York City twenty years to move from horse and buggy to electric trolleys as their main transportation at the turn of century. The second, more emphatically, was the U.S defense of the Straits of Hormuz, the main flow of sweet crude from the Middle East. He cited, from the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. spends $660 billion (fiscal year, 2012) on defending this geographic area—a Times magazine article says $8 trillion since 1976.

Wheatley added, “Yes, this number is not from some leftist rag, but the Wall Street Journal.”

The point of his contextual facts? The sun provides an abundance of energy and Envision Solar is ready for it, and maybe the country is ready for a major shift of how we look at energy?  

Below is information about Envision's autonomous, non-tethered grid solar array, EV ARC(via this press release)

• Mounted on an attractive, ballasted pad, the EV ARC™ does not require any foundations, trenching, electrical upgrades or even a building permit. It is 100% self-contained and is delivered to the site ready to use on it’s own undercarriage.

• The 2.3kW Solar Array generates approximately 16kWhrs per day, which are stored, ready for use in the 22kWhr battery storage. Clean solar electrical generation is enhanced by Envisions proprietary and patent pending tracking solution – EnvisionTrak™ that causes the solar array to follow the sun as it moves across the sky.

• An EV ARC™ will fully charge one typical EV per day or offer 1/4 charges to multiple EVs in city environments where users will park in them while having lunch, running errands or taking a meeting.