Challenges for charging stations

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business

Updated 1550 GMT (2350 HKT) September 6, 2019

Installing a fast charging station isn't always simple. This is the main
reason GM teamed up with Bechtel, a company that has experience
working with utilities and local governments on infrastructure projects.
For one thing, there are regulatory and permitting issues. Then
there's the need to coordinate with local utilities to make sure a
charging station can get all the power it needs. And all of this, of
course, varies from one state -- and even one city -- to another.
The chargers themselves aren't simple, either. While gasoline pump
nozzles come in a standard size, there are different types of electric
car chargers. For instance, Tesla has its own proprietary charging
network and its own chargers, which it calls Superchargers. Tesla
cars require a special adapter to charge from other chargers, most of
which use either the CCS or CHAdeMO standard, each of which is
different from the other. And that also raises the challenges of
counting how many chargers there actually are. Is one charger with
two different types of charger cords a single charger or is it two
chargers?
There are about 13,000 electric vehicle fast charging stations in the
United States, according to data from the US Department of Energy.
That compares to roughly 332,000 gas stations. There will likely
never be as many fast chargers as there are gas stations, said Pat
Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, a company that operates software
networks for chargers internationally. That's because, most electric
vehicle charging will be done at home or at work and most electric
cars have navigation systems that will guide them to the chargers.
Drivers won't be coming across them haphazardly the way they
typically find gas stations. That lessens the need to place them
anywhere they might conceivably be needed.
There's a lot of experimentation still going on with how best to place
fast chargers, whether for maximum use, convenience for the few, or
as a way to attract customers for businesses, said Wood Mackenzie's
Kellison. And the best way to make money from them is also a
question.
"Anybody who's saying 10 to 15 years from now they know exactly
how this is going to run is talking a little too early to have a good idea
of how it will shake out," he said.

Main idea
Installing a fast charging station isn't always simple.

Topic
Fast Charging Stations

Statement of opinion
Drivers won't be coming across them haphazardly the way they
typically find gas stations

Pronoun Reference
1. Installing a fast charging station isn't always simple. This is the
main reason…
2. "Anybody who's saying 10 to 15 years
3. most electric cars have navigation systems that will guide them to
the chargers

The meaning from context

1. Bechtel, a company that has experience working with utilities and
local governments on infrastructure projects.
2. And all of this, of course, varies from one state -- and even one city
-- to another.
3. That's because, most electric vehicle charging will be done at
home or at work and most electric cars have navigation systems that
will guide them to the chargers.

Prefix and suffix

1. suffix
Chargers ( Charge+er+s)
2. Prefix
Internationally (inter+nationally)

Part of speech
Nouns derived from Adjectives
-Navigation (Navigate+tion)
-Convenience (convenient+ce)
Adverbs derived from Adjectives
- Typically (typical+ly)
- Actually (actual+ly)

Noun phrases
Passive voice
…most electric vehicle charging will be done at home or at work…

Verb tenses
1. Simple future tense
- most electric vehicle charging will be done at home or at work
- most electric cars have navigation systems that will guide them
to the chargers

2. Simple present tense

- Tesla cars require a special adapter to charge from other
chargers
 - And that also raises the challenges of counting how many
chargers there actually are

3. Simple progressive tense

- experimentation still going on with how best to place fast
chargers

Adjective clause
There will likely never be as many fast chargers as there are gas
stations, said Pat Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, a company that
operates software networks for chargers internationally. That is
because, most electric vehicle charging will be done at home or at
work and most electric cars have navigation systems that will guide
them to the chargers.