I’m getting our first electric charger for the work parking lot (USA). One of us got an electric vehicle that uses the J1772 connector.
After hearing about the NACS standardization, I didn’t think it made sense to buy a leviton charger than only does J1772 like our electrician recommended. He also said he knows very little about it and is learning too.
I was thinking of getting the Tesla Universal Wall Connector on the Pedestal instead to future proof (Can do J1772 and NACS).
- Does anyone know if the Tesla Universal Wall Connector with pedestal is good?
- How does access control work so only employees can use it?
- Is there a way to track who is using it for how much power so they can be billed?
Any help would be very appreciated. Even though I still drive gas I enjoy learning about this stuff.
I know the Tesla EVSE (Charger) supports a single window of charging time. It’s intended for limiting to decreased electricity rates, usually in the evening but could easily be used in reverse to only allow 9-5 charging but not by day.
I don’t know how many chargers you are looking at putting in but since you want user billing as well as access control you may want to look at some commercial units such as:
Chargepoint
Versicharge
Blink
I’m sure there are others.
Trying to force a home unit to be commercial use may be more grief than you want.
I’d agree to an extent but Tesla has massive deals in place delivering the universal chargers for hotels, their commercial software is going to get major focus (and isn’t bad right now) but is nowhere on par with chargepoint and others. For what flexibility you give up you save massively in hardware expensive and ongoing fees. Chargepoint for example charges per charger annual expenses (it’s not insignificant) and 10% of all revenue. Tesla takes 1c per kWh delivered. That’s it. So it’s astronomically cheaper - we plan on deploying tons of Tesla universal wall connectors at work :)