Yes. Most EA stations have 150 or 350 in big block letters on the front of the station and the spaces themselves will have two lightning bolts for 150 and three bolts for 350.

Yeah, these people aren’t being educated by the dealer.  They just go “number bigger, use bigger”.  The post sale survey of my Hummer EV included asking if I had been educated on my car’s charge rate, how to DC fast charge, etc...and they hadn’t I just knew enough because I had educated myself.  

Many new EVs can take advantage of 350 chargers. The Kia EV6 and ioniq5 can. If you can use 350 I don’t care if you paid $40k for a Kia or $150 for a Lucid, you’re you’re plugged up to something you can actually take advantage of without adding a half hour to someone’s day. Price has nothing to do with me getting…

There’s a difference, it probably didn’t take you 30-45 minutes to pump your gas. I’m cool waiting 5-10 minutes to save 30 waiting on a faster charger but the person charging at 55kw on a 350kw charger is actively adding half an hour or more to my day and none to theirs. I could charge and be gone before they finish.

Because I watched the Bolt plug in as I pulled in the lot.

I mean, if someone WANTS to be an ass that’s certainly a choice, free country. And if you’re 5-10 minutes away from finishing a session on a 350 that’s no big deal, I’ll just duck into wherever it is and use the bathroom or take a walk. Anyway, the Bolt at this station was literally pulling into the 350 space as I…

No it makes me think I have a right to a faster charger because my car can charge 2-6x faster than almost every other EV on the market, so if there are two cars parked in 350 stations that can’t even max out a 150 charger when the other 150 spots are empty, you’re damn right I’ll be pissed.

...had this happen last weekend at an EA station. I bought a Hummer EV last month and was on a road trip. This is a remote station that I’ve never seen full with 4 chargers and there were only two charging, a VW iD4 and a Chevy Bolt, which can only charge at 118kW and 55kW, respectively. BOTH 150kW chargers were free…

I think the only reason you would shut down production and cancel thousands of orders isn’t “quality checks” it’s because you’ve found an issue you don’t want to have to fix post-sale. This reeks of “oh shit, this is bad, let’s fix this quietly and call it a ‘quality audit’”.

And they keep just putting more lipstick on the pig. The Model S is nearly 12 years old with some new makeup. The Model 3 is getting a very minor exterior refresh after 7 years, when their competitors have refreshes every 3-4 years and new models every 6-8...which was ok when they couldn’t make them fast enough…

“Woke mind virus” is real...but it effects the people that accuse everyone else of having it, turning their brains to mush as they scream “woke” at everything that moves. Same with “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, the only people that have it are the people that can’t shut up about it. i.e. Musk is suffering from both.

Getting close to 30 days since my purchase while the bank is primed and ready for their first payment, the DMV doesn’t even know I bought a car yet.

The new domestic lithium deposit in NV/OR will bring prices down too...but not for a while.

Targeting GMC Savana and Chevrolet Express production makes the whole thing feel toothless.

GM’s probably like “oh no, not GMC Savana and Chevrolet Express production delays, how will we survive?”

I’m just going to put it out there that the select factories they’ve picked to target make the strike feel toothless.

And as the range of the average EV continues to increase along with charging rates, it will become less of an issue. We’ve come a long way from 75-100 mile max ranges and 4 hours charges for the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3. But, as I’ve found out in the first week of Hummer EV ownership, that range expectation is what most…

Charger construction is lagging WAY behind the uptick in sales. Which is mainly an issue if you’re traveling long distances and road trips. In the short term, the solution to this is fast charging and only getting what you need at a public charger.

Incoming response from the dregs of the world:

...because I’m looking for two final animals to scan to complete a survey and they live in water...and a functional local map would make finding bodies of water WAAAAAAAAY easier than roaming for 45 minutes.