Electric+Car+Charging+Station

2/5/14 After contacting the Burlington Transportation Agency I was able to figure out the name of the company that the city used to buy the charging station located on Main street. The other two charging stations in Burlington are simply outlets that the businesses let people just use for free, this is the only one that charges for electricity. I then contacted the company, ChargePoint, who sent me a ton of information on the different chargers they offer as well as a list of colleges that already offer this service, both are attached below. I was also sent the pricing for the different models in that email. While the company charges a yearly fee, they do not charge a usage fee, that is up to us to decide if we want to charge the people that would be using these chargers. Some math would have to be done there in order to figure out how much we would have to charge people to use it depending on if we want to be loosing money to the electrical cost or not. One cool feature to these charge ports is the ability to advertise on them, potentially subsidizing the price of the electricity. I have also attached youtube links to demonstrate what the charges are like. I think the next step would be to see if there could be money available to fund this project and also to make those calculations as to how much it would raise the electricity bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Ilg_Q_5nQ http://www.chargepoint.com/how-to-charge/

__** Below are the prices of our gateway stations: **__ CT4011(bollard): $5,010 CT4013(wall): $4,505 CT4021(dual, bollard, power share capable): $7,210 CT4023 (dual, wall, power share capable): $6,705

__** Networking service **__** plans: ** Commercial: $255/yr./level 2 port



2/12/14 This week I opened up the conversation with Deane Wang, an electric vehicle owner and faculty member here at the Rubenstein school. I have found out that transportation services at the school is upset for a couple of reasons. First off, he is not supposed to park in those spots because they are reserved for the electric golf carts that Rubenstein owns, which are currently in storage for the winter. He is also not supposed to park there simply because he did not pay for a parking pass in that area. It is required that he park where the pass he allows him to be. Thirdly, he is stealing energy from the University. They have threatened to ticket him the next time he plugs in. For these reasons I am starting think that we would have to charge people money for the use of the charging port. I have reached out to transportation services to find out what I should do to try and get a special spot reserved. I am still waiting to hear back to see if Deane knows anything about how much electricity he uses to charge his car so that I have some sense of what to charge people when plugging in.

At this point I would like to start drafting a proposal. Having a proposal would be nice because I could present it to transportation services and show them how beneficial dedicating one spot to an EV charge port would be. I would like to here back from Deane about his vehicle first, but starting to draft the proposal will make my life easier so that I can just plug that data into it and start emailing it out to people.

2/24/14 Unfortunately I have been very busy over the past few weeks with midterms and have not had time to start drafting a proposal. I plan to get to it after Spring Break. What I have done is started a conversation with someone who read over a proposal for the clean energy fund last year that was in fact an EV charging station. That proposal got rejected so I wanted to see why and what I could do differently to try and get it approved this time. I am also trying to get in touch with the people who submitted that proposal so that I can gather their data as well. Deane emailed me back saying that his car has a 4KWHr battery, so at 12 cents a KWHr he said it would only cost him 50 cents to get home. I don't know what the mileage is to his house but regardless it seems pretty cheap. I think that putting the spot in the guest parking lot next to Jeffords would be the best option because then we can just charge people a few more cents an hour to park and plug in using the already existing pay station.

3/31/14 **__EV Charging Station__** By: Grant Troester

I. __ Project Justification and Relevance: __ Electric vehicles present a sustainable solution for the problems associated with the everyday commuter. Many Americans live in remote places and in suburbs outside of the city and must commute to their workplace every morning, contributing thousands of pounds of carbon into the atmosphere and speeding up the pace at which our earth is heating up. Installing an EV charging station on campus may be a small step, but it is the first that should be taken to cut down on these emissions. By simply installing a small console at the foot of a parking space, we will encouraging faculty members, students, and visitors to purchase and use electric vehicles which will help cut down on our GHG emissions. II. __ Project Goals and Supporting Objectives: __ Our main goal is to increase the usage of electric vehicles throughout our community, and to facilitate this we would like to install an EV charging station on campus. The first objective is to negotiate with Burlington Electric and transportation services as to how this additional energy usage will be paid for. Our next objective will be to contact physical plant services and find out how to hook up the console with the existing electrical grid and too devise a way to create a payment plan for the station. The final objective is to promote the fact that UVM has one on campus and encourage its usage to electric vehicle owners in the greater community. III. __ Research Approach and Methodology: __ Research will be a simple series of calculations. Statistics are available online for every electric car on the market today that will tell use the amount of electricity is needed to charge the battery. For their we will be able to calculate the cost of the electricity depending on the rates UVM gets from Burlington Electric