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The charging stations at dealerships are meant first for the dealerships, visitors are secondary. When you're selling EV's, you don't want your outlets to say
by floatrock 6y ago
The charging stations at dealerships are meant first for the dealerships, visitors are secondary.
When you're selling EV's, you don't want your outlets to say "sorry, can't do a test drive, our cars aren't charged" (before uberlyft, how many times did you hop into a cab only to have the guy say "sorry, the credit card machine is broken"). And when people do buy the car, they don't want you driving off the lot with can-I-even-get-home range anxiety as your first experience with electric.
So the chargers-at-dealerships requirements are there to make sure dealers can first just sell the cars. Second usage is maintenance -- yeah, EV's don't need oil changes, but they still get their mirrors broken off at the same rate as any other car. Think getting a range top-up after you drop off the car for whatever repair as part of your premium service package upsell.
It's not about building out a destination charging network, it's about making sure their EV retail outlets can effectively retail EV's.
- ngcc_hk 6y agoCan’t stop laughing on this “ can-I-even-get-home range anxiety as your first experience with electric.”
- maccard 6y ago> And when people do buy the car, they don't want you driving off the lot with can-I-even-get-home range anxiety This rings true. My last car came with enough fuel to prove the fuel gauge was working, which I realised just as I was about to pull onto the (local) highway.
- chipsa 6y agoMy local [car brand] dealer doesn't have a charger for my car. As such, I always make sure that my car is charged before I take it over there. I mean, they could charge them off 120V, but that's like 1/4 of the speed as you can get off a dedicated charger, or less if they install fast chargers, which is what I'd expect for a $200k/dealer installation.
- fy20 6y agoI'm guessing most dealerships already have 240V at least. Car lifts need a lot of power, unless you want to be waiting around for minutes to lift a car. That's more than enough to charge a test drive car overnight.