We developed the AC electric vehicle charging station (EVC-J) and have produced the EVC-J in Japan in Sep. 2009. This product is compliant with IEC61851-1. The EVC-J is the first product, which has an attached supply cable and vehicle connector and allows both Model-EV* and Mode2-EV* to be charged (*Model and Mode2 are defined in IEC61851-1.).
We modified EVC-J and contributed 4 items of the 2009 low carbon projects**.
(** 10 items were adopted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as the 2009 model program to demonstrate social system for a low carbon society.)
The modified EVC-J has additional functions, that is identification and communication, for value added services demonstration (e.g. Billing, Maintenance management). Based on the experience of EVC-J and modified EVC-J, we developed the AC electric vehicle charging station (EVCl) and have produced the EVC1 in Japan in Nov. 2010. The main features of EVCl are as follows:
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EVCl has an attached supply cable and vehicle connector, and can charge EV/PHV in Japan (As of May. '11).
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EVCl has a communication function to the maintenance server using the cellular network as its standard function. Charging records, EVC-1 status, error information and etc acquired by the communication function can be monitored and used for maintenance service.
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Easy operation flow, VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) and touch panel contribute to EVC1's operability improvement. In the summer of 2011, we plan to introduce EVCl-IC with IC card identification function for the billing service, which may be adopted in the future.