Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Market Developing Rapidly with Push from Utilities

摘要

Judging from the early sales figures, electric vehicles have been getting more press than purchases, but the market for equipment to charge plug-in cars has the attention of the nation's electric utilities.The impact of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) on the electric grid has been a point of contention for some time, with some claiming that a proliferation of EV charging could cause serious trouble for power distribution systems while others predict that the potential for utilities to use car batteries as distributed energy storage could be the salvation of renewable energy and smart grid efforts.