Electric Vehicle technology gets a boost with Mitsubishi’s solar powered CHAdeMO EV charging points!

Mitsubishi's Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station

The biggest stumbling block that electric vehicles face worldwide has been of that of recharging the battery stack in electric vehicles and doing that quickly and effectively, just like how you could refuel your petrol or diesel powered automobile. While electric vehicle technology still has some way to go before it can match the convenience of the internal combustion engine powered automobiles, the step that Mitsubishi has taken in association with sister firm, Mitsubishi Electric, represents a small but a very important step in electric vehicle technology.

Mitsubishi Motors in North America has just unveiled a solar power electric charging station at Cypress, California. The solar powered charging station uses 96, 175W photovoltaic modules from Mitsubishi Electric, that will harness solar energy to charge the electric vehicles that arrive into the facility to get recharged. The facility will support Mitsubishi electric vehicles like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV that features the CHAdeMO charging technology.

Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car

The CHAdeMO technology is basically a standard adopted by Japanese electric vehicle manufacturers for quick charging of EVs. The electric charging station, that can charge 4 EVs simultaneously features three types of charging points and voltages. The 110V charging point can manage to charge a Mitsubishi EV fully in 22 hours while the 220V point can manage to do the same in just 6 hours. The real game changer, however is the CHAdeMO charging point which can manage to charge the Mitsubishi EV’s battery stack to an 80% capacity in 25 minutes.

This promises to be the real game changer as folks going about their daily routine in shopping malls and other activities can take half an hour off to get their EVs juiced up to a 80% battery capacity quickly. While charging the battery stack of the electric vehicle in 25 minutes might still not match the 3-5 minute time period that it takes to refuel an internal combustion engine powered automobile, with advances in EV and charging technology, this time period is further expected to drop, thus making electric vehicles a viable option in the near future.

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