The component that is supposed to enable the fast charging infrastructure is now delaying it enormously. The delivery times for newly ordered transformers are at least one year.
(Photo: Claudia Scholz/Handelsblatt)
Dusseldorf It doesn’t matter which charging park electric car drivers head for to charge up with electricity, there is always a meter-high box there – mostly grey-white and inconspicuous. For the layman it is just a kind of big building block in the landscape, for the connoisseur it is a transformer station. In this building there is a transformer (transformer for short) that converts medium to low voltage – and without which no ultra-fast charging station works.
It is precisely these charging stations, at which an electric car can be fully charged in around 30 minutes, that are currently being greatly expanded in Germany. They are intended to take away the range anxiety of e-car drivers, especially on long journeys. But the associated transformers have become one of the biggest obstacles in the construction of charging stations in Germany. The component that is supposed to enable the fast charging infrastructure is now delaying it enormously.
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