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My impression, from watching many videos similar to this: https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc, is that fast charging in the USA is incredi
by drewg123 5y ago
My impression, from watching many videos similar to this: https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc, is that fast charging in the USA is incredibly flaky for non-Tesla vehicles. Chargers don't work at all, chargers don't accept payment, chargers don't handshake with cars, chargers complain of faults and don't finish charging the car, chargers don't deliver advertised charging power/speed.
I've done about 20k miles in road trips in my Tesla, and I think I've plugged in to 1 charger that didn't work at all. I've suffered degraded speed at other chargers, primarily due to them being older chargers that share capacity between 2 chargers (so my speed was halved when somebody else plugged in to the mated charger).
The worst problem I've had with Tesla chargers is the locations. Sometimes finding them is hard (the one near Dulles in Reston took me forever to find for example), sometimes getting to them is hard (chargers in malls are a nightmare around the holidays).