Automaker Toyota Motor will conduct plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) charger infrastructure verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 2012 to March 2013.
Toyota will conduct the tests together with two local governments and ten businesses.
At present, charger installation in Japan is carried out at the discretion of commercial and non-commercial facilities where there is no established method of recuperating installation costs.
To promote the adoption of PHVs and EVs, national and local governments have set numerical and deployment schedule targets for chargers.
Optimal charger deployment locations and operational as well as billing methods will be examined in the tests.
The automaker said that the tests are intended at facilitating the establishment of a charging infrastructure, which would allow the acceptance of next-generation vehicles and lead toward the realization of a low-carbon society.
A new coin-operated standard charger based on the G-Station charger, developed by Toyota Media Service, will be deployed to explore the feasibility of different billing methods and pricing structures.
About 20 new standard chargers will be installed at commercial hubs, public facilities, pay-by-hour car parks and similar locations, to analyze usage patterns and assess deployment locations and operation methods.
