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GE Launches his new version of recarga mural for electrical vehicle WattStation in Europe

21/09/2012

21 September 2012

Presented by the World-wide Centre of Investigation situated in the Technical University of Munich, the new WattStation mural of GE is compatible with the three types of connection of recarga for electrical vehicle (GO) in Europe and can be used so much in the private field as in the public field.

The capacities of gestión of power of the station of recarga mural WattStation allow the installation of multiple points of recarga integrated cheese cheese of simple form, for applications like parkings or parkings of fleets. Also it can connect to systems of gestión of pre-existing power and is compatible with the technology smart grid, what will allow to the user, in a future, benefit of the prices in hours fence in, with the consequent saving in the bill.

WattStation.

The compact unit can be easily installed so much in inner as in outside and his robust construction is resistant to the rain, to the snow and even to the ice. The flexible wire (optional) can place around the unit keeping it, of this form, more orderly and compact. To avoid any unauthorised use, the station of recarga mural WattStation presents a system antirrobo activated by means of key.

Another of the characteristics of the station of recarga mural WattStation is the possibility of personalización of the cover, of agreement to the needs of the customer, being able to include logos or changes in the colour of the device.

At the beginning of 2013 will be available the new version of WattStation, WattStation Network. This new device allows the connection to internet of wireless form, road wifi or by means of wire Ethernet. Besides it has one of the protocols of communications more universal used at present, the ModBus TCP/IP. All these functions do of the new station of recarga WattStation Network a very versatile product, since it adapts to the needs of the customer, independently of the system of communications that was present.

Allows the recognition of users by means of cards with technology RFID, similar to the used in controls of accesses, of very easy handle. With this system will answer to the needs of the companies of parking, of the agents of fleets and of the municipalidades that need a better control of the use of power or an intelligent function in the payment or control of his utilisation.

The options of identification of the user and the on-line payments will allow that the stations of recarga can be used by all the drivers of electrical vehicles or by the contrary, that are restricted to those users authorised and the agents of fleet that will be able to later invoice the consumption to the users.

Besides the application for Iphone of WattStation, available in Itunes, manages the recarga of the vehicle to distance and receives relative informations to the use of power. The intelligent technology has been designed to be compatible with future eventual improvements.

Charles Elazar, director of Marketing of GE Power Management Industrial Solutions EMEA, explains: “Nowadays, the customers are considering the electrical vehicle from an economic perspective, more than from an environingingmental punto. The new generation of hybrid vehicles is generating interest and also are seeing a niche that develops with organisations that buy “ecosystems of complete electrical” vehicles, groups of vehicles and infrastructure of recarga to answer to the specific needs of transport.”

Together with a range of stations of recarga that includes the DuraStation and the versions WattStation mural and WattStation Network, GE provides a complete range of electrical systems and the necessary technology for the development and the gestión of a complete infrastructure of electrical vehicle. Thanks to his Main companies and Fleet Services, GE also offers his services in the field of the financials, of the vehicles and of the gestión of fleet to support a greater acceptance to the technology of the electrical vehicle.