In the interests of honesty however, they should make it clear that the Hyper Fast only does this on 800v cars. Perhaps they need a catchy marketing name for 800v cars. In particular, you don't want people with 400v cars using the 800v stalls if a station has both 400v only and 800v stalls.
They should have just done something similar to what the USB-IF uses, and do something like:
If it does. EA could program the stations to notice this and refuse to let the 50kw car to charge at a 350kw station if necessary. However it needs a camera to be sure that the 50kw station. Best to give reservations and pick the stall for the driver. That really needs a display on the car like Tesla can do.
I found an article talking about this refresh. Apparently, it also is debuting at the same time as balanced power... They are introducing shared cabinets. Each pair of 350kw chargers will share up to 350kw. It says each stall is gauranteed a minimum of 150kw. However, the split isn't always half half like a v2 supercharger... It says if one car has a higher SoC and is only pulling 50kw, the other car can pull 300kw.
I'm pretty sure that V2 Superchargers are dynamic like that as well. It is just that there is only ~144kW to split, so if both vehicles need a lot of power you only get 72kW. But if one is only pulling 50kW the other will get ~84kW. (It is allocated between vehicles in ~12kW steps.)
Maybe it's because you're "old." So am I, though I'm not even 50. And I'd guess that's why those terms don't resonate with us. But I do believe they asked a reasonable segment of the population, and they liked it. We prefer the numbers and the details, but not everyone does. EA has to find the more broadly appealing terminology, and I suppose this is their effort.
No, it's not about that. I don't need "numbers and details". Words would be fine if they are informative. @avs007 gets it. The problem is simply that the words "hyper" and "ultra" don't have any inherent meaning. They don't indicate anything about which one is higher in a comparative sense. The words small, medium, and large listed on a group of items show the order and indicate something definite. With hyper and ultra or ultra and hyper, which one is the faster charging stall? That isn't informative and makes people go look for the "numbers and details" anyway to figure out what's going on.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Are they putting one new generation charger at each site? Will they be replacing entire sites?
I've made two 3,000 mile trips while in possession of the CCS1 adapter (AZ~Cape Cod~AZ). I've used quite a few EA sites sort of as an experiment. Most worked out OK. A few less than OK and one or two which were just hopeless. Thus, I will only use EA sites which are within a few miles of a Tesla SC location.
Electrify America said that it will replace 300+ chargers by the end of the year.
Yes! This is the best way to do it. EA should be used as a supplement to Tesla Superchargers. Lower prices are great, but it's a nightmare if it doesn't work and you're stuck with no way to charge (quickly).
I avoid EA sites period. If they're close to a Tesla SC, I'll use the Tesla SC. If not, the expected 10 - 20 minutes required to get a session started, followed by the slow 48 kW charging rate, coupled with the high probability that it won't work anyway makes it not worth my time. When I travel, it's to get somewhere, not to fuss around with a charger with a terrible track record.
