Great job! 👏🏻👍🏻 so is it the same charge speed as the one Tesla offers for residential installation?

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

I will get Glen to give you some more detailed information, but I can charge at 32 amps and my average voltage was 199 for my last charging session.

@glengordon3809

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt! A Tesla wall connector is normally a 48 Amp EVSE (charger) and the EVSE we installed in Ryan's building is a 32 Amp EVSE. Most large condos have 208 Volt power versus 240 Volts in a home or townhome. A 32 Amp EVSE at 208 Volts will provide about 38-42 km of range per hour for a Tesla Model 3. Tesla also has some much larger Wall Connector EVSEs (80 Amps) that can draw as much power as several 3 bedroom homes. While we do offer larger EVSEs, we always recommend that Condos (and single family home owners) choose an EVSE that is 32Amps or less. The reason is that once EVs become more popular, the use of high power EVSEs can create major issues, these issues will cost $$$$$ to fix, and ultimately those costs are borne by the utility rate payer. When you think of electrical capacity, try not to think of the capacity of your home panel, but of the green transformer out in the street. Don't think of the capacity of your condo building, but of the capacity of the substation in your neighborhood. Large EVSEs are not sustainable for either homes or condos. In the case of Condos, as Ryan mentions in his video, demand charges resulting from EV charging can be very large. Consider that in Calgary, Demand charges on the Common (or House) power in a condo (which is what EVs get charged from) are about $15 per kilowatt per month. The 80 Amp charger that I mentioned above uses 16.6 kW, so if it was in a condo and got plugged in while the rest of the building was at peak demand, it would result in $250 in extra demand charges for that month. Who pays for that? Not the EV owner that is paying 10 cents a kilowatt-hour ($30 a month on average). Our solution is to monitor building demand, and when demand gets close to peak, we turn the chargers down for a few minutes, prevent the EVSEs from driving additional demand, and then nobody has to pay for it. Every car still gets fully charged fully every day - and that is what's important to our customers. One thing - peak demand times in condos vary from day to day, week to week, and month to month, so trying to set you charging to start at a certain time (say midnight) will not work - we have buildings that have experienced peak demands at 3 pm on a Tuesday and other at Midnight on Sunday. The subject is unfortunately a bit complex for me to do a decent job of explaining on here, but I raise it because its important Condo owners are aware of these charges and either implement a system like ours to avoid the demand charges, or find a way to recover the costs from the EV owners. I've not met an EV owner yet that wants to pay $100 or more a month in demand charges. We have done many dozens of presentations to condo boards in Calgary, Vancouver, Kelowna, Edmonton, Victoria, and now Toronto and the most common response to demand control is, "Well that just makes sense."

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

That is an excellent response Glen. A problem that still isn’t well understood, but crucial that it is not ignored!

Great Job! Not Just on the video but also on pulling this project thru and doing all the leg work for the condo board. It's amazing that people didn't even know about Zoom or other online platforms similar to that. Super cool that you pulled thru and get to charge now at home.👍👍👍👍

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

It was no small effort and I am just glad the board collaborated on doing this. Great result for a scalable solution!

Hey Ryan, nice meeting you yesterday in Waterton area. Thanks for the tips on tires, PPF and more for Tesla,

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to meet you too Hussain 👍🏼

It’s took me 9 months to get my charger installed in my condo. it cost almost 6k and that was because, the condo management made me do everything by the book which was a pain. The electrician also had to run wires to a new floor because the outlet was located very far from my parking spot. It was a a big job.I also don’t plan to sell my condo and, my goal is to use it as rental property. I’m happy now that the process is over. The condo is charging me 10 cents a kw and I have spent about $400 per year in electricity.

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Does your EVSE system solve for power demand management? I.e. limiting the rate of power the EVSE can supply when the building power demand is near peak capacity.

early adopters are the modern day revolutionaries, unfortunately they always remain uncredited for the value they are adding to the society. Thanks Ryan !

@RockyMountainTesla

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Prabir, just doing what I can.

Nice Unico commercial, but you didn’t tell us what the system did and how it does it. Your subscribers need that information to convince our condo boards for EV charging. Does the Unico System directly bill users for electricity consumed and reimburse condo association for electricity consumed? What is Unico transaction fee for each charge? Is the Unico system in meter room remotely monitoring each and every EVSE in parking garage? How many EVSEs can it support; 20; 50; 100? Can I use any EVSE or must I use theirs? What was cost of system for first user and cost for each additional user which has economies of scale? This seems like a fabulous solution to a major condo and HOA EV charging problem. But the devil may be in the details. I’ve installed multiple EVSEs and have owned 2 teslas since 2017.

@RockyMountainTesla

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t really do it as a commercial but it definitely was done to promote their product. It was my experience in general. You would get better answers from Unico, but generally here are a few quick answers. Unico handles the billing/reporting and pays the condo every 3 months. EVSE owners pay Unico monthly. Each month EVSE owners pay a set rate per kWh plus ~$20/month per EVSE. They sell the EVSE to each stall owner, it’s designed to communicate with the monitoring system. The UNICO system monitors house electricity usage and communicates to all EVSE’s and stops charging to prevent increases in demand charges. It’s a system that can scale as large as it needs to. First two EVSE’s were before inflation, and I funded the infrastructure so I don’t get that part of the outlay until more condo units commit to an EVSE. I don’t feel comfortable sharing the amounts over social media, but if you want a conversation about it offline I would be happy to assist. With inflation I will almost guarantee costs have gone up.

Can you please share the total cost ? Or the breakdown? I’m trying to figure this out and some places are asking for $150 just to give me an estimation.. I’m less than 100m from the electrical room would it cost me more than $4k? $5k? With the charger ?

@RockyMountainTesla

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the best thing I can say is it depends. The system overall cost more than that, but it was infrastructure that I funded to the tune of 11k. The two spots initially cost under 5k each. We suspect new spots here will cost minimum 5k plus tax. A few things that have changed since: inflation, costs have gone up for electrical equipment/supplies. I would contact UnicoPower directly.

Do you know if this company work in the U.S.? Colorado? If not, I wonder if there is a company like that here?

@RockyMountainTesla

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll see if I can find out.

Hello, I too live in a Condo and would like to transition to a EV vehicle. After watching your video, I have a few questions. When Unico setup the charging stations, who was responsible for the cost? Did you pay the entire amount? or Did the condo pay some and you pay some? I am trying to convince my condo to install some EV chargers, but I am having a hard time to convince them.

@RockyMountainTesla

2 жыл бұрын

I personally funded the infrastructure and will get paid back as new installations happen. Generally it would be good if you can get a few others on board with the idea to share some of this cost. I identify with the struggle you are going through! How many parking stalls does the condo have? I’m going to do another video soon with Glen from Unico about common questions.

@richardcheng6221

2 жыл бұрын

I estimate about 96 parking stall

@RockyMountainTesla

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the size a solution from Unico Power starts becoming ideal.