Well it was confusing because you said there were ~1000 Chargepoint stations and to my knowledge they’re at around half that in the US, with 1-2 posts at most locations(I see your reference, but it seems to be behind a paywall, feel free to share. I get my numbers from plugshare and Chargepoint’s own site).
Only the L2s can be used by non Teslas, the Superchargers are Tesla only.
You’re counting stations, not posts, Tesla Superchargers tend to have far more posts per station than Chargepoint or EA. Tesla has more posts in the ground than Charge point or EA so the contention ratio is in Tesla’s favor. Combined with the higher average charge rate, and therefore lower charge time the balance…
With similar constraints I got an ‘04 LX470. Extremely comfortable, capable and reliable. Not fuel efficient, but cheap enough that the savings from your budget will never be spent(I got mine for 8k). Nice, but old enough not to send the wrong message.
Oh no, that’s why all my responses were in the first person speaking of my personal experience haha.
Again, not saying you’re not making a logical conclusion, just that logic isn’t necessarily what drives these things.
For sure, I think as these things become commonplace it’ll be easier. Just made me laugh picturing how those conversations would go explaining a grid+fuel cell setup to those boards. ‘They’re how big?’ ‘You’re gonna bury what underground?!’
Yeah, that stuff happens for sure. I think part of it was it being a new thing, I spent a lot of time just educating people about EVs, charging, and frankly electricity. Either way we were unwilling to play the concessions game, and our very large gas station partners had the same outlook, hence their high permitting…
No I don’t think it was bribes, and I’ve heard the whole range. Don’t like to look of them, don’t want any additional traffic, added impervious surface to the property, too much planted screening, too little planted screening, don’t want buried conduit under the ground, don’t want conduit run above ground, taking away…
Dude, I had grid powered EV installations languish in permitting hell for 2 years, having to attend many board meetings to push them through. Those are also silent, vibrationless and produce no soot. Don’t underestimate the ridiculousness of local bureaucracy. From what I heard from our gas station partners, the…
Ha burying them would be fun. Having dealt with the permitting around these installations I bet the town board hearings around that would be hilarious. From what I remember the payback period for fuel cells is around 8 years at current electricity/gas prices. That lands you at ~$500k/100kW...for a surface install,…
Sure they scale, but again the size/price/weight per kW is through the roof for both of those. The SolidPower one is 3x2 and 500lbs for 1.5kW so figure 50 tons and 1200sqft to run 2 x 150kW posts. Bloom energy is claiming 16 tons and 200sqft for their 300kW system. It’s hard enough to find 9sqft for a transformer on a…
Your right on the charging profile for fast charging, though luckily right now it’s less than 5% of the energy going(even including those without home charging) into the cars, and that has gone down as the range of the cars goes up, which I expect will continue.
Ha that might work for family, but not friends with careers and such. There is a reason my favorite people are here. Also I was born here as was my father, my roots are deep.
The nice thing is that the vast majority of the energy going into the cars is during off peak hours as most people do most of their charging at home overnight. Low single digit percentages of the energy going into these cars is from DC fast charging, and a small percentage of that is during peak hours. In general the…
Tesla does install batteries(powerpacks) for peak shaving at some locations, but to serve as a primary energy source you’d need a huge number of them making them more expensive than just bringing in the appropriate power in most cases. A single 2-ton powerpack can charge 2 Model S’s completely....
Eh alcohol isn’t what makes a good bar good, people are. Many of the people I like the most are in NYC. I can cook and do most of the time, but I also recognize that there are people far better at it than I am, and like to benefit from their skill once or twice a week(I also avoid small plates). It also doesn’t have…
Because my commute is under 20 minutes and I can walk to amazing restaurants, bars and parks. Also parking is free on the street in the vast majority of the city and traffic really isn’t that bad outside of Manhattan.
They could, but bar Tesla with the V3 supercharger no one really has hardware that does that(V1/2 only shares between two posts). Frankly, in the US no one (again, bar Tesla) is really installing large enough sites for that to make a huge difference. Your average site size has to be pretty large to justify the…
I suspect they are going with the low charge rate to lower install costs. You *might* be able to install 4 50kw posts on the existing service. It’s very unlikely that a gas station has 4x150kW = 600kw/750KvA sitting idle, as that is more than a whole station would use. The additional cost and hassle of bringing in new…
