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Originally Posted by Cyro
It's a start and forward thinking at the least.
This would be an excellent location to install a charging station for the the New Transit Buses currently being tested here.
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Charging station right now is going at the airport for the route 20 buses (all 4 of the test ones). I think i heard there was also one going at the 820 Taylor hydro parking lot for the transit bus to the downtown tower.
Talking to somebody a while ago from hydro they are trying to figure out how to plan for electric cars. They have load implications to the substation designs and distribution transformer loads to each street address. A lot of the existing older substations are near or surpassing their design loads and need to be replaced.
With electric cars electric utilities (not just Manitoba Hydro) have to figure out the numbers that may be in the future and how much power will they need.
Substations usually have a service life of 50 -60 years before they get updated so they don't want to spend money for larger transformers etc if its a fad, and on the other hand they don't want to have to replace still good transformers that end up being undersized if they are wrong on demand.
The quick charge bus chargers apparently require enough power when in use to rival a small grocery store. Just can't plop them in at any location because the supply may not be available.