It also benefits everbody else's vehicles. If it makes you feel better, consider that it saved American car companies like GM, Ford, Lucid and Rivian billions that they'd otherwise have to spend on building charging infrastructure to make their EVs viable in the US market.
At the moment, that benefit is pretty lame since they stacked the deck and only install a single CHAdeMO plug at each site vs. the many CCS plugs. It's not that rare that the station w/CHAdeMO plug is down.
That has nothing to do with "stacking the deck", but with simple market realities. Chademo is a dying standard in the US.
Tesla superchargers were also underutilized in the early years, particularly outside of California. What Tesla understood then is that there is a chicken and egg problem. Without a reasonable fast charging network, you can't sell EVs. So I'm not sure what your point is. EA is enabling all these companies to bring their EVs to the market without first having to spend billions on charging infrastructure.
Their per-kWh prices are similar to Tesla's.
EA assisted with the killing of CHAdeMO in the US by intentionally only doing the bare minimum (1 50 kW CHAdeMO handle + multiple higher powered CCS at each site). You don't think automakers in EV planning stages saw that?
Yeah, but prior to the price change, Pass+ was 18 cents/minute in California. Given the conditions I listed and when I'd terminate charging, it would come out to about 18 cents per kWh for me. Now, Pass+ is 31 cents/kWh, giving me no reason to use their DC FCs. That is about the same as my marginal cost to charge at home.
Yes. Maybe a better think to look at is the movie at Watch a Bolt EV at a ChargePoint Express 250 charge at up to 55 kW or the power lines of Best charging curve I've seen yet from a 100kW DCFC which are more than 50 kW.
Yep. Someone who I know lives in Western WA w/a Leaf (he's had several of them, starting with an '11 and now has a Leaf Plus) has complained about queues developing at EA chargers for the lone CHAdeMO plug. I believe he's also posted about the lone station w/CHAdeMO plug being down.
Hogwash. CHAdeMO capable chargers make up less than 1/4 of all chargers at EA stations but CHAdeMO charging sessions account for significantly more than 1/4 of all EA charging sessions. And the numbers of those CHAdeMO charging sessions is actually depressed from what it would be due to the limit of only having 1 at any station (more down time, deferred charging sessions due to single station occupied, etc). All of which means they are underrepresented. We all know that the future of EVs in the US will be CCS (or CCS+Tesla depending on how recalcitrant Elon remains). But that fact and all your EA apologist dreck aside doesn't change the reality that EA absolutely set out to intentionally disadvantage CHAdeMO cars beyond what was reasonable based on the "simple market realities". In another 5 years or so, the current fractional make up of EA stations between CCS and CHAdeMO might make sense but it certainly hasn't since the start of the EA build.
Prior to COVID-19, I didn't work from home and I was on a TOU plan, E-6 (see pages 2 and 4 of https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHEDS_E-6.pdf). But due to COVID-19, I was required to WFH for months and pretty much at this point, there is no point in going to the office: almost none of my team is there so collaboration is no better and I don't want to be that guy who might catch or spread COVID from going there for no reason. So, I switched intentionally to E-1 since E-6 made no sense any longer.
Chademo's fate in the US (and Europe) was sealed long before EA existed, when all of the carmakers in the US (and Europe) decided not to adopt it outside of the Japanese market.
What other major non-Tesla DC FC provider has built a network for long distance trips? There is only a single Chademo EV in the US that can reasonably be used for long distance travel, and no new ones have been announced either.
And that is relevant for the US market how?
Don't expect replies with that kind of tone.
I see this differently. There are no new (native) CHAdeMO cars being built for the the US market. Sure, Tesla makes an adapter, but most people don't buy one. Nissan was the last manufacturer building CHAdeMO cars, but this year they announced going to CCS.
No. Mitsubishi Motors also makes vehicles for the US market w/CHAdeMO inlets (e.g. Outlander PHEV). There are also CHAdeMO vehicles outside the US, including those from Asian and European automakers.
I acknowledge that, but I really don't think Tesla has sold that many adapters, and of the sold adapters, I doubt they're much used. The adapter is super clunky (lots of hilarious YouTube videos of folks wrestling the adapter), and it's much slower (and often more expensive) than SuperCharging. Unless someone is venturing into one the areas not serviced by the SC network (and that area is getting smaller every day), there's just no reason to use/own a CHAdeMO adapter.
That is 0.18 cents per minute for the slowest DCFC charge rate.since the most vehicles with CHAdeMo ports are only 50kW max.
You should pay a visit to North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and/or anywhere along the Trans Canada Highway. Plenty of Chademo use there and will be for quite a while.
