FYI: First Electric Cars, Now Price War on EV Charging Equip

[apvbguy]

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[UBUYGAS]

It's the way it should be!

http://www.plugincars.com/first-electric-cars-now-price-war-ev-charging-equipment-129068.html

 

[JimSouCal]

I saw the guts of an EVSE about 3 years ago, and was "shocked" (not really, ha) about how few components were inside... I'd think the price will go even lower for the EVSE. What I'd like really like to see are inexpensive quick chargers but it seems unless I build my own as others here are trailblazing, it's not in the near future cards...

 

[UBUYGAS]

Eventually they might be $99.00

I saw the guts of an EVSE about 3 years ago, and was "shocked" (not really, ha) about how few components were inside... I'd think the price will go even lower for the EVSE. What I'd like really like to see are inexpensive quick chargers but it seems unless I build my own as others here are trailblazing, it's not in the near future cards...

 

[GlennD]

The main cost is the J1772 cable. Both Chris's unit and the JuiceBox are very cheap without the cables.

Just like a ladder hidden costs like UL approval or insurance make up very large hidden cost.

 

[tps]

The main cost is the J1772 cable. Both Chris's unit and the JuiceBox are very cheap without the cables.

Just like a ladder hidden costs like UL approval or insurance make up very large hidden cost.

Economy of scale will bring prices down as quantity goes up. It will happen.

 

[johnrhansen]

I don't know why the public charging stations cost so much. If they were cheaper, maybe there would be more of them.

 

[GlennD]

The main cost is the J1772 cable. Both Chris's unit and the JuiceBox are very cheap without the cables.

Just like a ladder hidden costs like UL approval or insurance make up very large hidden cost.

Economy of scale will bring prices down as quantity goes up. It will happen.

Absolutely, the price will go down. Ingineer said UL approval costs over 25K. Today that cost is spread out over a small base.

 

[valerun]

The main cost is the J1772 cable. Both Chris's unit and the JuiceBox are very cheap without the cables.

Just like a ladder hidden costs like UL approval or insurance make up very large hidden cost.

Economy of scale will bring prices down as quantity goes up. It will happen.

Absolutely, the price will go down. Ingineer said UL approval costs over 25K. Today that cost is spread out over a small base.

Correct. We were quoted 3-4 months and $20-30K. We think that having a sub-$1,000 commercial charging station will easily result in 10x explosion of public charging. So we are going for it. $25K spread over 10,000 units is just $2-3 per unit...