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TE CONNECTIVITY INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION /// WHITE PAPER PAGE 4 Electrifying a Movement Addressing the Time to Charge Industrial and Commercial Transportation Vehicles The Industry is Focusing on Providing a Faster Charging Infrastructure Electric vehicle charging stations seem to be popping up everywhere. But in reality, the ability to quickly and conve- niently charge one's car (let alone a heavy-duty long-haul truck) pales in comparison to the availability to do so at a diesel or petrol station. The transportation and power utility industries are hard at work addressing this critical industry need, as demonstrated in figure 2 on the previous page.. Today's available fast chargers, providing between 50 to 200 kilowatts of power, typically can add just under 200 miles of driving range in one hour for a typical electric car. Currently, the industry is developing high-power charging (HPC) to provide the same amount of charge (200 miles of range) in 10 minutes or less, producing an experience similar to filling up your gas tank in an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The commercial vehicle segment, with larger batteries and longer journeys, has a strong need for even higher power charging capability, given the large battery capacities for their applications. Several groups, including the Society of Automotive Engi- neers (SAE), CharIN E.V., and the CHAdeMO association are working to develop charging standards for electric vehicles worldwide. Several protocols and physical interfaces have been devel- oped along the way by these industry-wide bodies. Work is underway to establish and accelerate ultrafast DC charging. While the exact implementation of a standard is still under debate and discussion, it is certain that at some point in the not-too-distant future an ultrafast DC charging capability will exist. Whether via plug-in charging stations as outlined in Figure 2, or via pantograph, ensuring that vehicles are ready to take advantage of ultrafast charging cannot wait until the standard interface is defined. Vehicles face Technical Challenges related to Fast-Charging Connectivity Will vehicles be ready to effectively handle 500 KW charging? 1MW and beyond charging? Although the need to be able to charge a vehicle in minutes rather than hours is apparent, the way to safely and effectively address this requirement is not as obvious. These demands are driving the industry to focus on a broad range of solutions to solve never-before-seen challenges. Charging inlets must be able to handle 10 to 20 times the power of the current generation of electric cars. Trying to push up to 1 (or more) Megawatts of power through an inlet sized to handle 50 kilowatts is akin to someone trying to Figure 3. TE Connectivity Solutions for Industrial and Commercial Transportation Electrification Architectures