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Low-cost Electric Vehicle Charge Station

A coin operated kWh vending machine

Published in issue 401, May 2010

Low-cost Electric Vehicle Charge Station
The acceptance of electric cars seems to be hindered by a general lack of stations where you can charge your battery just as you would ‘fill up’ at a fuel station, but taking some more time, of course. Here’s a design for an electrical energy vending machine that’s operated with coins. It’s PIC based and the software was developed with Flowcode.

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