By way of example, TX will be dumping about $20M of dieselgate money into fast chargers over the next...90 days or so.  That’s a few hundred, though they take a while to build.

This. If you are the municipal water treatment department and you use 2019 F150s and are psyched about 2021 F150s, you order one in your annual budget later on that month. If you are psyched about Lightnings, you laboriously one-finger-type “e v c h a r g i n g” into Bing and start trying to remember where the…

Totally useless is too strong. How about “necessary but not at all sufficient.” You’re pretty much right, you can get a useful-but-not-adequate 120 miles a day-ish of range at home. Way more than needed for most commuters but most people who are home trucking as you well know are driving all over Hell and breakfast…

While there are other safety and implementation issues here, let’s assume you have a garage. And you don’t own an Ev so don’t have a 200+V outlet out there, just a normal plug at 120Vx25A = 3 kw. You’d add about 9 miles range per hour plugged in.  Maybe you’re home at 6 out at 7?  120 milesish.

S1 suggests they’ve also got a little over one half of one percent of those Adventure Network stations underway so got that goin’ for them.

The Ford vanbulance transport unit and the chartreuse BMW motorcycle in high viz colors, big panniers, and a lot of reflective tape bringing the ALS/medic is a Radwood era EMS retcon I can sign up for. Austin-Travis County or maybe like a Jamie Hewlett take on late -90s London Ambulance Service?

This.  EV chargers....

Deep cut exterior decor idea, just replace that nice EKG with a really troubling, bad one.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST_elevation

We, uh, gonna come copyedit this headline on the homepage?  Been....been a few weeks now.

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See also every only-wanted-to-be-an-EMT, 22-year-old premed having to learn the whole DOT airbrake check out and various troubleshooting procedures as they get checked off on the ambulance....

7 seats in 3 rows.

Mix enough random cleaning fluids together and he’ll get there.

Yes, all EVs car decide up to max rate of either internal or external charging hardware (BTW Superchargers quite frequently quietly throttle down to manage demand charges at the location) but the car having a setting to take less than that is I think unusual.

“I would leave it around 85% and only up it to 100% when I was going to be on a multi-day road trip. . . .” no, this was written I think confusingly.  Charging capacity is not being changed, charging *speed* is, from 270 down to 200 kW.  I guess the “capacity to charge quickly?”   

This is I think a federal or SAE requirement, for...emissions.....reasons?  Hold up.

This is a good point.  In particular the single charger stations need to go away...but also, this “I stop only when empty and fill up all the way to full” metric is seemingly not how people mostly act.  They put in what they need knowing they’ll brim at home, so full fills are a very small portion of fast charger…

Some of the problem is no one *really* cares right now. Trips > 30 miles are less than 5% of trips, and it’s an exponential curve that keeps falling off after that, such that the number of trips you get to with having one fast charge top up of like 10 minutes on the way gets you 80% of the rest. ..so how much tech and…

Concur. Everyone tries to talk in “minutes to full charge” to be like comforting or not introduce the scary term kW and it results in the metrics being all over the place and confusing people worse. Also results in silliness like people talking about a 7 kW Volta charger like it was basically the same thing as a 125…

Good God man the standard for fast charging infrastructure can’t be “I didn’t *ENCOUNTER* one while not trying or looking” how do you buy like, sandwiches, do you just drive around keening until you see a sign? https://www.plugshare.com/?area=16740