The solution is to literally just build more chargers everywhere and give people better access to charging at home. No queue model is ever sustainable. The issue is people not really understanding how an EV works and just “topping it up” like they would a gas car which in turn takes a lot longer to charge. If you ever drive 20km a day there’s zero reason to ever keep your car up past 80% but for some reason people like it keep their tanks full despite never touching anything below 50%. More education, more opportunities to passive charge is the way to go.
Jason said:
This has literally never been a problem before. There’s a charger I go to that can get somewhat busy and there are always calm conversations and chatting.
It’s been a problem when I rented an EV in California but no where else was it a problem. I feel this could largely be solved by adding a second charging cord to the station and when the primary vehicle ramps down to trickle speeds, the other vehicle starts.
In my California charging experience, there is a lot of wasted time switching cars and since DCFC is so fast, those 5 to 10 minutes of switching is a half cars worth of energy, if another car was already hooked up ready to go, the thruput would be substantially higher with no additional power draw.
In the California example, there were 6 stations with 2 to 4 people waiting, it was a mall parking lot so it was hard to actually know but if those people could have parked, plugged in been ready the moment the other car drops speed to trickle charge, they could possibly be out before the idle fees kick in for the other guy.
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As much as I’d love at-home charging, it wasn’t possible as it was a rental car. The friends I was with got a ‘free upgrade’ to a Mach-E in the bay area. Fortunately, I was with them and had all the apps installed and knew how to do it. However we were there for a wedding and couldn’t exactly go out at 3am to charge or plug in at the hotel. It wasn’t that bad tbh, we just had to make an hour long stop at the mall and entertained ourselves with bubble tea in the meantime. I can see it being stressful if you’ve never done EV before and mildly annoying while being on vacation.
Silver lining is that free upgrade converted my friends and they now want a Mach-E lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/60blrUJQZu
Thailand vs India, we just have to decide which common car item will be used.