If it was an inside job as posited, that probably wouldn’t have slowed them down either.

Regarding the per-minute vs per-kWh pricing: in many (most?) areas the charging company cannot charge per kWh because of laws that say only the utility company may charge for power. So instead they charge for the time you’re parked while charging. It’s an unintended consequence of what was probably very well…

We would have been fine with a Bolt, but where I am there is zero inventory and factory orders are taking 8-10 months. So used ones are going for the same price as new. Sorry, no. I’m not going to take the depreciation hit when people are no longer desperate enough to overpay.

My wife and I had a Leaf, but it got wrecked a few weeks ago. It was our only car, so we need to replace it. Our preference is to get another used EV, but we had enough range issues with the Leaf that we wanted something with more range.

Regarding Tesla’s price drop:

I get that reading comprehension might be hard for you, but maybe try again? 

This one-upmanship EV wankery is boring. Wake me up when meaningful range and true high speed charging is available at a reasonable price.

I wish this was a thing in British Columbia. Demand is still very high, and EVs are hard to come by. Used pricing is still the same or higher than brand new MSRP on Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, Polestar 2, Hyundai Kona EV, Kia Soul EV. It’s nuts.

Owen, Owen, Owen, how wrong you are. As the owner of that exact year and model of Leaf I can tell you that the range may have been 107 miles brand new, but it isn’t anymore. In the city you might get about 80 miles out of it if you aren’t using the heat. If you stick to about 65 mi/hr you might get 60 miles from it on…

Humanity is too dumb to survive.

Then why the f*ck aren’t they fixing them? Could it be because they don’t make enough money to justify the marginal cost of fixing them? You keep saying money is money, but completely ignore that broken chargers are common as dirt. If they were worth something to the operator they would freaking fix them.

The gas pump owners put a priority on fixing broken pumps because that pump can represent thousands of dollars of lost revenue every day. The EV chargers might lose dollars (level 2 chargers) or a few hundred (DC fast chargers) per day when down. 

Sure, they might have a good gross margin on the re-selling of power. But even with fast chargers, you can only crank out so much power per day. And you’re only getting revenue when someone is charging, which might only be a few hours per day. (I’m talking less about Tesla Superchargers than I am about other…

Marques Brownlee did a video a few days ago on this very subject:

The whole point is that yes, all these conveniently located chargers exist, but if they don’t work when you need them to it makes for a bad experience.

This is what lots of people know, but nobody wants to say: electric car charging is not profitable. That’s why the charger companies, like EA, have little incentive to keep the chargers working. Unless a DC station is utilized 24/7, the incremental revenue from each station isn’t worth keeping it operating.

I guess it depends how badly you want/need one. You can order a Tesla for delivery in a few weeks here in Vancouver, where just about any other EV you’re looking at several months, or even two years for an Ioniq 5. The simple fact is that only Tesla is making EVs in real volume right now.

I heard a rep from a company working on sulphur batteries on David Roberts’ Volts podcast. The potential is huge, but there are some substantial challenges to overcome. Still, there’s real hope that we’ll start seeing them commercialized in five years or so. That will be the step-change in battery affordability that…

Will never happen. Like some other commenters have suggested, better to put some AI into the signaling itself. 

I don’t think you need a 3x more powerful charger to charge 3x faster. You just need to be able to charge at top speed for longer. Those 350kW chargers will, if you’re lucky, charge at 350kW for a small portion of the time, and you’ll find much lower charge rates through most of the charge cycle. If you could get…