EV Charging

Interface solutions for EV charging stations.

EV charging stations are outdoor, public-facing, and used by drivers in all weather conditions. The user interface must be intuitive, responsive with gloves, resistant to vandalism, and reliable through years of continuous outdoor exposure. RNC solid-state switches and panels deliver the durability and user experience that charging infrastructure demands.

Key challenge
Outdoor durability, vandal resistance, gloved operation, intuitive UX, and long unattended service life
Relevant products
Key technology

What EV charging interfaces face.

Parking lots, highway rest stops, urban streets, and fleet depots. Direct sun, rain, snow, ice, road salt, and temperature extremes year-round. Users interact with gloves, in the dark, and with limited patience. Vandalism is constant in public locations.

Many charging stations rely on capacitive touchscreens that crack from impact, ghost-trigger in rain, and fail from thermal stress. A broken interface means a charger that cannot be used. Every hour of downtime is lost revenue.

Why solid-state piezo for EV charging.

Replaces fragile PCAP touchscreens
No glass to crack, no touch layer to degrade, no sunlight readability issues. None of the failure modes that take outdoor touchscreens offline.
Outdoor durability
IP69K sealed. Rain, snow, ice, road salt, pressure washing, -40C to +85C. No seals to degrade, no weather-related failures.
Vandal-resistant construction
One-piece metal panels with potted electronics. Nothing to pry off or damage. Functionally indestructible in the field.
Any glove, any weather
Force-based activation works with winter gloves, work gloves, wet hands. Every press registers in conditions that cause PCAP interfaces to fail.
Solar autonomy

Battery-neutral charging interfaces.

Many EV chargers operate on solar or limited grid connections. The interface must not dictate battery sizing. Under 10 microamps standby, less than your battery's self-discharge rate. Hardware-triggered wake with zero polling means the panel draws nothing until a user touches it. 90% backlight savings through event-driven illumination.

EAA 2025 compliant
Built-in braille and raised icons on the metal surface. 1N activation force (adjustable below 0.5N). No external tactile overlays.
Fortress architecture
Metal panel and display behind separate surfaces. A cracked window never disables the controls. Charger keeps processing payments.
All-weather, any glove
-40C to +80C. Rain, ice, snow, road salt. Force-based sensing works with any glove type, wet hands, and in direct sun.
Zero-lag wake
Hardware-triggered instant wake. No polling, no false wakes from rain or vibration, no perceptible delay for the user.
Deployed

RNC solid-state panels are used in outdoor EV charging installations where conventional touchscreen and membrane interfaces failed within the first seasons of outdoor exposure, providing consistent operation and zero weather-related maintenance across multi-year deployments.

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