Hell, they can’t even police all the late 90s, early 2000s Escalades, Malibus, Camrys, Caravans, etc. around me with “Farm Use” tags that have never even been to a farm before.  Once saw a “Farm Use” C5 Corvette.

I mean, the original H1 Alpha was over 8k lbs. Requiring special licensing isn’t going to prevent someone that wants to reckless drive in a 9000lb truck from doing so.

Until they released the demos for sale last month, there were only 850ish Hummer EVs sold.  Now they demos are released that’s closer to 2000.  

Love the Bolt, it’s only flaw is DC charging speed.  I think that’s really what “cancelling” it then bringing it back as an Ultium based car was about.  There’s a chance it will be 200 miles in 10-15 minutes which would make it comparable to a gas stop for most people.

Ha

Yeah, but GM has built 0 customer Silverados and about 3k customer Hummer EVs, so they haven’t even made the dent in reservations that Ford has.

Just took a 1500 mile round trip vacation in the Hummer EV. Tried to keep it between 20-80% and stuck to 350kW charging and it wasn’t bad, mostly. Almost every stop from 20-80% was about 37-40 minutes, 4 stops down, split the return drive into two stints with two stops per day. The only real issue was locals with free…

...something fishy going on.  The Silverado EV has over 200k reservations, the Hummer EV had 90k, and they got wise and only allowed reservations of the Edition 1 Sierra Denali EV so there’s only a couple thousand reservations.  There’s some dissonance between “lack of demand” and over 300k reservations for EVs they…

If plugging into a “slower, but still fast” charger doesn’t inconvenience you or prolong your charge but does both of those for other people next to you if you don’t just reach the 150 plug over...

Again, a better analogy would be:

Maybe it’s because I’m a pedantic engineer but someone spending an hour charging their 55kW max EV on a 350 charger when it still takes the exact time on a 150 charger while 3 800v EVs could charge on that same charger in the same amount of time is objectively wasting the time of three other people and the time of…

Based on the feedback here I’M an asshole when I do something like unplug to let someone get enough to just get home when I’m not in a hurry. If everyone just goes straight cutthroat when it comes to the limited chargers as EV sales go up, no one wins.

Update: Geeeez there are a lot of people here that get their jollies making other people’s lives worse for no good reason.  Nothing like someone prolonging a 2 year old’s 8 hour road trip by and hour or two in extra charging because they didn’t want to re-plug into a more appropriate charger for their hardware when…

I didn’t pay more to charge faster, it’s just newer architecture that’s also available on Kia’s, Hyundai’s, Honda’s, Chevrolets, etc. Say you have a car that can’t even use a 150 charger to it’s fullest, but its on a 350 charger. In the time it takes that car to charge at a slow rate on a fast charger, 2-3 other 800v…

The EV6, Ioniq 5, Blazer, Honda Prologue, etc. can all charge just as fast. They don’t think they’re entitled to faster charging because they paid more, they’re entitled to the faster charger because their car can charge faster. Even a Taycan can’t fully benefit from a 350. A couple of 800v vehicles can charge on a…

We’re not talking about “You should move one space over because I spent more money” we’re talking about “you should move one space over to be polite because thanks to battery architecture and engineering I can charge and be gone in half the time you can you’re just prolonging my day with no benefit to yourself”. An…

An excellent idea. Charge the same increased fee for the 350 no matter what rate you’re using. I don’t mind spending a little more for convenience. It’s already funny with stations that charge per minute instead of per kilowatt. I plugged into a 350 next to a Bolt on a 150 in Knoxville, TN a couple weeks back. We both…

The gross capacity of the Hummer is maybe 215-220, someone did bad math and it spread that its 250...but its not, just putting that out there.

And making me take up a slower charger for longer instead of them taking the slower for the same amount of time thus creating delays for the next people waiting for a charger because they didn’t use the appropriate plug.

But that’s still applying gas logic to electric vehicles. Let’s extrapolate on that analogy. Imagine my SUV’s tank is 3x bigger than your Focus...but I can pump 6x faster. So, with equal levels of fuel, I will be “fueled” and done in half the time you will if we both use the appropriate chargers.