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How do we create or adapt infrastructure within homes or workplaces so that DC appliances can be adopted?
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how about a low power DC standard of, say, 48V with connectors rated at, say 10A?
David, you're 100% aligned with our thinking! ……
We would be keen to hear your (and anyone else's) views on this!
When I was involved in some standardisation activity in Germany around electric vehicles some 8 or so years ago, the interest in ultra-low voltage was increasing because of LEVs, and now there is a working group (WG). My old pedelec (2010 vintage) is 24V; they have been at 36V now for a while. I seem to remember the standardisation interest was in 72V (or lower). What is the reasoning behind 48V?
Connectors are an often underrated issue. One of the guys who helped design the Mennekes-Mercedes 7-pin connector for EVs, which is now EN, sat on a standarisation committee I was chairing in 2012-4, and had lots of interesting tales!
how about a low power DC standard of, say, 48V with connectors rated at, say 10A?
David, you're 100% aligned with our thinking! ……
We would be keen to hear your (and anyone else's) views on this!
When I was involved in some standardisation activity in Germany around electric vehicles some 8 or so years ago, the interest in ultra-low voltage was increasing because of LEVs, and now there is a working group (WG). My old pedelec (2010 vintage) is 24V; they have been at 36V now for a while. I seem to remember the standardisation interest was in 72V (or lower). What is the reasoning behind 48V?
Connectors are an often underrated issue. One of the guys who helped design the Mennekes-Mercedes 7-pin connector for EVs, which is now EN, sat on a standarisation committee I was chairing in 2012-4, and had lots of interesting tales!
