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Wow. That is one way to make a simple math problem much too complex and with less accuracy.
I would disagree with this. Charging to 70%, when you only need to charge to 48% to get to the next charger, is a waste of your time and occupies a charger unnecessarily.
I would guess that Branden is referring to using a level 2 charger(At a hotel or at home to charge to 100% overnight) and then hitting a level 3 DCFC station for your second and subsequent charges(to enough range to hit the next DCFC to stay in the peak charging speed) on a road trip.
Precisely.
Although I agree with your point, I don't want to spend 40 minutes at a charger on the days I do. At least from this video I know I can expect to.
Not sure I had a point other than wondering if I was part of a minority or if it was the majority where this wasnāt a major concern.
Using the numbers from this video, starting the day at 80% SoC, you'd have 215 miles of range. Tommy pulled into the charger at 20% SoC with 60 miles of range left. After about 20 minutes at this charger, he could have left in the mid-50s% SoC and 135ish miles of range. Not saying that's super fast, but I don't think it's necessary to sit at a DCFC for 40 minutes if you don't need to. On a 250 mile day, one 20 minute stop would give you enough for a round-trip, with a pretty big margin, even leaving your house at 80%.
The taper looked fine. I just would have expected it to hit higher levels till about 40% and then follow this curve. Could very well be a combination of temperature and the specific charger. It held the ~150kW for so long that is seems suspicious. It will probably take a few more attempts at different locations to know the real potential.
I probably average about 1-2 trips a year where I drive more than 250 miles to a destination. And then home, a few days later, where vacation houses sometimes have outdoor outlets, and sometimes may not. I've been playing with A Better Route Planner, to see what my potential charge times/destinations are. I realize, if I am stopping, it is going to probably be, 20-30 minutes, each time, at least until I get comfortable with a charging network. But I also drive 125 miles to a destination, and then home in a day (about 250 miles round trip, with an expected range of about 275 miles max for my desired R1T configuration, figuring in wheel range loss, and highway travel) fairly frequently, and the all terrain range hit and highway range hit, will impact my plans.
Itās funny, Iām a point A to point B traveler as well, thought I would hate stopping to charge. When we travel in the Tesla, Iāve just been coordinating meals and bathroom breaks with the charge stops and it really has been nowhere near what I was dreading.
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