I was watching a YouTube video where somebody was showing a full charging station, and said this is a regular occurrence for them.
Given how long some cars take to charge, this seems like it could be a big issue.
Is this something any of you have experienced? What can be done about it?
If you catch it right time at right place you can make anything seem like what you’re pushing. I’m seeing a lot of anti ev news
Why do I have 7 comments but 0 upvotes. Is this community not interested in discussing issues ev’s face and how to solve them?
This is why Tesla formerly implemented idle charges and is currently implementing congestion charges for users charging beyond 90%, and congestion warnings that automatically reset cars to 80% (but can then be reset by users) at high-utilization chargers.
It’s also why outages like “2/4 plugs are broken at this location” (which is shockingly common at some brands of chargers) isn’t acceptable.
Finally, a system that detects when a charger is full and automatically directs users to another nearby charger is very helpful, especially given the scenario that sometimes there are multiple nearby chargers, but one gets more popular than others due to location.
Tesla manages all of these.
I’m not sure why Tesla is the only one who can do this right, however, it’s a bit baffling.
On the way home Sunday, not only were 2 of the 8 stalls at EA nonfunctional, but the remaining 6 were degraded, so I got 7kw out of the sole “working” 350 and 46kw out of a “working” 150. The best I saw on any of them was 88kw. This was a bank of 6 150s and 2 350s.
I charged just enough to get home. Even for EA, this was particularly bad.
Only place I had a wait charging was a busy bank holiday Monday in the UK but these were at motorway services. If you went away from them it was pretty empty