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Complete sockets of an EV charging station #5164

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Affected tag(s) to be modified/added: socket
Question asked: Which sockets does this charging station have (all charging points combined)?

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  • 🚧 To be added tag is established and has a useful purpose
    as an EV driver the locations of charging stations are not worth much if the charging station does not have the appropriate socket for my vehicle, e.g. some electric motocycles or small electric cars can only charge using household sockets while larger vehicles use "special" EV charging connectors.
    In general a charging station without the matching socket is as useful to an EV driver as a filling station only serving petrol is to a driver of a diesel car :-).
  • 🤔 Any answer the user can give must have an equivalent tagging (Quest should not reappear to other users when solved by one)
  • 🐿️ Easily answerable by any pedestrian from the outside but a survey is necessary
  • 💤 Not an overwhelming percentage of quests have the same answer (No spam)
  • 🕓 Applies to a reasonable number of map data (Worth the effort)

Ideas for implementation

Element selection:
Any amenity:charging_station which has no sockets or where the number of sockets combined is less than the station's capacity.

While a charging station can have more sockets available than parking spaces, the other way around does not make much sense :-)

Proposed UI:

A list of connectors (with count and maximum charging power). The connector types could be visualised using pictures as it done e.g. for street surfaces.

The maximum charging power is usually printed on the charge point and in most cases voltage/current can be deduced from it, e.g.:

  • Type 2 socket with max. 22 kW: 400 V, up to 32 A;
  • Type 2 socket with max. 11 kW: 400 V, up to 16 A;
  • Type 2 socket with max. 43 kW: 400 V, up to 63 A;
  • Type 2 socket with max. 7.2 kW: 230 V, up to 32 A;
  • Type 2 socket with max. 3.6 kW: 230 V, up to 16 A;
  • CCS socket with max. 50 kW: 400 V, up to 125 A;
  • CCS socket with max. 150 kW: 400 V, up to 350 A;
  • CCS socket with max. 350 kW: 1000 V, up to 350 A.

(However, I don't know how much the voltage/current matters for DC charging (i.e. CCS), because AFAIK when DC charging the EV's battery is connected directly to the charger which will then use the appropriate voltage and current required to charge the battery.)

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