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Originally Posted by OutdoorLover
Yes, agree that the industry shift to NACS/Tesla network will be all to the good. The other networks have issues with availability/uptime, there could also be a line to access a working charger. Some of the big networks aren't good about upgrading their chargers to current standards - so a lot of those DC "fast chargers" are only capable of doing 50kW DC, and it's just not very fast. Then there's the fact that the automaker will also govern the actual charging rate so as to protect the batteries, and the stated maximum supported rate for the car may only be available within a narrow range of charge state, and you're software limited by the car to a small fraction of that upper limit... there are just a lot of ways for this to go slowly or go wrong... and I have seen so many videos of expert users, who like EVs, but are running into issues for any of a number of reasons on a longer trip. If you're motivated and have patience, it seems you can normally still prevail by waiting long enough or finding other charging sources, so actually running out of electrons may be rare, but running into trouble seems to be common. It's been pretty discouraging, OyCrumbler!
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Yea, the CCS charging landscape is pretty discouraging as the expectation is that all chargers should simply work pretty much all the time. I think sometimes what's missing is the information that there are regions or ways to have it work pretty much all the time because the deployment of faulty hardware was very region specific and plus there are ways to comb out the more error prone ones. That doesn't help people though if the route their taking necessarily has only error prone ones, and the expectation is and should be that they are always working.
One good piece of news recently is that Electrify America is now switching over to a single hardware supplier (BTC Power) which have been reliable. One question is how long it'll take for EA to go back through its currently installed chargers to swap things out for NACS and reliable hardware.
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