What is the VCS Two?

Power to You

The VCS Two is our second-generation product that enables electricity from your home to be safely delivered over the footpath in front of your house, to your car when it’s parked in the street.

Just like the VCS One, the VCS Two is designed so that installation doesn’t require any modification to the footpath or nature strip. We install on your side of the fence, and go over the top, high enough that we’re out of the way of everyone using the footpath.

We’ve changed the mechanical design so that it can fold away behind the fence when not in use. We’ve moved to fiberglass for some key structural elements to reduce, weight, cost and remove the need for a counterweight.

This lets us install the VCS Two much more quickly than the VCS One, and at lower cost.

The boom supports a fifteen metre EV charging cable which is supplied with the installation. Our standard offering is that this cable is designed to plug into a normal power point, which will be sufficient for most drivers, and keeps cost to a minimum.

Charging an EV from a power point can deliver up to 200km of range overnight, depending on the car. Most inner-city EV drivers don’t drive more than about 40km per day, so will only need to top up once or twice a week this way.

For drivers who require higher power charging, or the ability to fully recharge an EV overnight, we offer higher power options.

Fast and Easy

The installation work is undertaken entirely on the private property, rather than including works on or under the footpath in front of the home.

The installation also avoids installing permanent or temporary electrical wiring that crosses property boundaries, which saves a lot of safety and compliance work.

These factors make the whole installation process faster and easier. The installation of the core hardware is no more complex than the installation of a fence post.

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Safe and Reliable.

At VCSA, we’re not fans of EV charging approaches that disrupt the quality of the footpath. Our local governments spend a lot of time and effort making our footpaths usable, not just for pedestrians, but also for kids on scooters, parents with prams, people in wheelchairs or on mobility scooters, and even our friendly Postie.

Adding speed bumps to our footpaths, in the form of protective covers over extension leads, worsens our urban environment. EV drivers have a right to charge their cars, but that right doesn’t trump the right of a person to easily get around their local streets.

This is why VCSA products stay well above the footpath when in use, and out of the public space entirely when it’s not in use.

For the owner, safety and reliability is built into the VCSA products.

The charging cable we offer as standard has built in temperature sensing where it connects to the house. We do this because while there’s only been one case in Australia across over 500,000 cars of an EV charging cable causing a fire – once is one too many.

The charging cable is rated for complete dust tightness, and against high pressure water jets – not just against ‘a bit of wet weather’. Because we can.

We offer a two year warranty, and we’re pretty comfortable it’s not going to be called on much.