Developing the charging infrastructure for wide-scale electric vehicle adoption


Alessandro Mastellari


Technical Specialist, Avnet Abacus


Concerns about carbon emissions and urban pollution are encouraging the automotive industry to introduce hybrid and fully electric powertrains. Their work is being aided by steadily improving battery and motor technology, but is held back by the ’chicken and egg’ problem of charging the resultant vehicles. To ensure that electric vehicles (EVs) have the same freedom to


roam as today’s fossil-fuel cars, a few challenges need to be addressed. Charging has to become faster, the world’s network of petrol stations needs to be upgraded with electric-charging facilities, and standalone charging stations need to be introduced to compensate for EV’s relatively limited range.


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