Recargas Of hardly half hour to favour the use of the electrical vehicle

Treats of the first project of this type of the United Kingdom. The units of fast load EVlink will be installed by all the country in the next months in the areas of service Roadchef, covering the country of tip to tip. The modern points of recarga will allow to the drivers recargar entirely a battery exhausted in 30 minutes. The first of these stations has been installed in the area of service of Clacket Lane of Roadchef, in the M25.

The project constitutes the most significant step of the dice up to now in what it does reference to sustainable mobility in the United Kingdom. Until this moment, has existed the quite extended worry about the inability of the electrical vehicles to displace long distances, as well as on the insufficient infrastructure of recarga. Since the big part of the points of recarga in the United Kingdom required of 8 hours to fill an empty battery, this meant that drive an electrical vehicle presents a lot of restrictions and realise travel of more than 100 kilometres was practically impossible without realising at least a stop.

To change this reality, the project, that began in September of 2011, needed of the collaboration of Schneider Electric, no only to supply loaders of continuous current of 50 kW, but also to work elbow with elbow with Engenie during each step of the process, from the initial concept through the gestión of the project and finalising with the installation.

The technology facilitates the life to the drivers thanks to that uses a philosophy of immediate payment, what allows them pay only by the power that inject in the vehicle.

Jeremy Littman, director of Engenie, affirms: “we Are convinced that this will be one of the turning points that will allow that the electrical car was a reliable alternative in front of the traditional mobility. 30 minutes of fast load in the stations of Engenie can provide an autonomy of some 160 kilometres, offering 75% of saving if we equate it to the oil, with which the return is fast”.

“Previously, if you wanted to do a long trip in an electrical vehicle, had to face up to long periods of recarga of until 8 hours. However, with the network of recargas that today inaugurate, this disadvantage no longer exists. We want to put the emphasis in the needs of our drivers and have designed and located this infrastructure having this in account”.

David Greaves, responsible of development of business for the electrical vehicle of Schneider Electric, aims: “This supposes an important change. Whereas during some time the adoption of the electrical vehicle has seen ralentizada, now are in front of a moment decisive that will help to promote the expansion of the electrical vehicle in the United Kingdom. While the price of the petrol follow going up, the profits to adopt an electrical vehicle are greater”.

“The stations of recarga fast EVlink allow to the users use his long vehicles distances without doing multiple unemployed, helping to reduce the environingingmental footprint and to achieve big savings”.

“Like committed company with the gestión of the power, east is one of the projects of infrastructure of recarga in which we are participating; Schneider Electric continues at the head of the development of the network of recarga in the United Kingdom”.

By his part, Michael Heaton, commercial director of Roadchef, affirms: “we Are proud to be the first chain of areas of service in offering this type of installation. Previously, a lot of users of electrical vehicles that tried to do a long trip had to divert of the motorway and direct to the centre of a population to load the battery. To be viable, the electrical car has to be convenient and allow fast loads”.