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another issue is, even if there are charging stations in convenient locations, what do you do if you get there and all the slots are being used. I rarely, if ev

another issue is, even if there are charging stations in convenient locations, what do you do if you get there and all the slots are being used. I rarely, if ever, have to wait to fill up at the gas station, and when I do it takes less than five minutes for the car in front of me to finish filling up. worse case scenario is I wait for the other person to buy a bag of chips inside the station. it takes about an hour to charge a tesla most of the way full at a supercharger. no one is gonna wait that long with their car. who knows when they'll be back?

Klathmon 7y ago
>it takes about an hour to charge a tesla most of the way full at a supercharger. while you aren't wrong (it's actually much longer than an hour from low-charge to 100%!), there is a caveat that charging in the 20-80% range is significantly faster, so stopping at a supercharger for more than 30 minutes is almost always slower than only charging the range which can charge most quickly and move on to the next one or your destination. And because of that Tesla has begun limiting max charge at busy supercharger locations to help prevent the issue of no stalls being available in the first place. The superchargers are also networked and you can see how many stalls are open at any time, which really helps relieve any anxiety i had about it. Many other charging networks (like Chargepoint) are networked as well, and can show you how many are available, and even peak usage times.