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Solar charge station for electric cars

Good day,

I wanted to know if Victron has developed a solution for a solar charge station to recharge batteries (either lithium or sealed AGM) to power small electric carts (similar to gulf carts). Our idea is to build several small carts to be used on the coffee processing plant and the cart will driven by dc motors powered by batteries. Maybe each cart will have spare batteries so when they are drained after some time, they will be taken to the solar charge station and new recharged batteries will be placed on the cart to continue the process.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Regards.

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Alexandra avatar image Alexandra ♦ commented ·

@dgmar_ni

One could be designed with available products to be honest.

You need to consider time for charge, charge amps battery size, etc and you could work one out.

https://www.victronenergy.com/blog/2015/09/25/victron-energy-power-toyota-ev-charging-station/

https://www.victronenergy.com/blog/2020/05/12/tesla-ambulance/

It looks like there is an ev charger on its way but not really for your application with the carts.

https://www.victronenergy.com/live/evchargingstation

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dazey77 answered ·

As previous poster, all the bits are there.

At the most basic you could just plug the cart batteries into solar chargers.

More sensible would probably be to have the solar station charging its own batteries that act as a resevoir and then charge the carts via DC-DC chargers.

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Coworking Spaces answered ·

An infrastructure for photovoltaic energy generation and a battery energy storage system allow the energy used in the recharging process to be 100% renewable, which sets apart solar charging stations from other types of service stations for recharging electric vehicles. You must need to visit more sites for the more confirmation!

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