Margate330

Total noob on EV's here, saw under hood of my first one a month or so ago.

Dumb question, do these chargers work like gas pumps?
Anotherwords, you can see the dollar amount to be charged scrolling in the screen and just cut it off when you get the amount of "juice" you want or reach the dollar $ amount you want to spend?

JeffKeryk

Practicing for an EV...

SW17LS

You’ll see this more and more as gas stations can viably make money with charging stations. Eventually you’ll find every station has a few.

I’m in WV and I’m ASTONISHED by the number of EVs here from out of town. I stopped at the WV welcome center on 64 by the Greenbrier where I usually stop and I was parked next to a Tesla Model Y from Chicago. I was talking to the older couple in it and they said they have no problem finding chargers even down here. I’ve seen 5 Teslas in town from all over the place.

There is a Supercharger in Mt Hope now which is like 15 miles away, I’m not sure where it is exactly but I know it’s there…but along 64 where I met them there ain’t nothing for miles and miles really.

Toys4RJill

I see a lot of EVs too. Lots of chargers near me. But I never see them used. Just the Tesla chargers at the shopping malls.

SW17LS

I think there are just so few non Tesla EVs on the road, and most people charge at home.

Toys4RJill

it would be true there is not a lot of EVs other than Teslas on the road. BUT, to run a EV without a home charger is such an inconvenience for most of the population. Charging makes sense at home, but will always have hurdles for charging on the go.

SW17LS

There are more than there used to be, but Tesla still has overwhelming market share.

spwolf

It says 175kw on the charger, you think these are slow chargers?

Also, around Europe, a lot of them are on gas stations. In my country, most of Superchargers are in gas station parking lot, which is great because you can drink/eat/etc there.
SC on their own suck because in many cases they are off site and there is nothing to do there.

AMIRZA786

​​​​​​ They work differently than gas pumps, for charging stations like Electrify America you pull into a parking spot and plug into the charging port of your car. Most people use the app to start the charging cycle, but you can always use a credit card. You don't see dollar amount until you stop charging, but you do see percentage and kWh delivered. You can stop the charging anytime you want. The cost is so low compared to gas that nobody looks at the cost

EZZ

We have those ones in gas stations in our neighborhood and they don't hit advertised speeds. They also have a lot of non functioning ones...reliability is a concern. Of course not all stations may be that way. They aren't common here though as EA and EVGO dominate the chargers. They tend to be expensive too.

Superchargers are usually near shopping areas here in California but a few are out in nowhere. EA chargers are always near WalMarts or Targets. Admittedly, most of the chargers in my region are V3 Superchargers and a ton of 350kw CCS EA chargers. Outside of California, which i rarely venture, has way less infrastructure. Europe is definitely ahead of most of the US. I imagine California is probably equivalent.

Och

iTrader: (3)

This charger is in UK, quoting one of the reviews, lol.

Quote:

EV charger points are very unreliable. One of them has been out of order for weeks now. They are also the most expensive in the country!

https://www.google.com/search?q=shel...rome&ie=UTF-8#

This is very much like I always predicted, companies that install these chargers are doing it for compliance/government subsidies, and they don't care about maintaining them. It will only get worse.

AMIRZA786

Traveling between Northern California and Southern California, Electrify America has been 99 percent reliable. In 5 months I've only seen two Superchargers offline. If other states choose to be behind everyone else, that's their problem. Here it's getting better day by day, exactly as it should be

EZZ

Don't get me wrong...i wish most of the chargers were at shopping centers or gas stations. I think its logical that they be at gas stations but the ones that are currently at gas stations are a bit more spotty than dedicated EA or EVGO chargers. Of course I've seen Superchargers at a gas station and some EVGO chargers too and they are super convenient so its probably a great way to go. Europe is just ahead of us on the curve as they already standardized to CCS (even Tesla). Tesla plugs are way better but i'd be willing to give that up if the entire US just went CCS and I could go to any charging station. I think it will go that way eventually.

mmarshall

A number of different reasons.....don't have time to go into them all in detail.

EZZ

I bet you want to avoid gas tank degradation.