Electric vehicle batteries can only be charged by direct current (DC) electricity, while most mains electricity is delivered from the power grid as alternating current (AC). There are two main types: AC charging stations and DC charging stations.
Bottom-right: converted Toyota Priuses recharging at public charging stations in San Francisco (2009).Ī charging station, also known as a charge point or electric vehicle supply equipment ( EVSE), is a power supply device that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicles, electric trucks, electric buses, neighborhood electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles). Bottom-left: Nissan Leaf recharging from a NRG Energy eVgo station in Houston, Texas. 
Top-right: Brammo Empulse electric motorcycle at an AeroVironment charging station and Pay as you go electric vehicle charging point.
Top-left: a Tesla Roadster (2008) being charged at an electric charging station in Iwata city, Japan.
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