I think this is great to stop people hogging the spots. However, do you guys think this will solve the problem on long travel routes during vacations?
We also heard Private companies can buy and install Supercharger Stations. This is good for Tesla Taxi companies to stop them hogging all our Superchargers as this happens in Montreal from a Tesla taxi service here. But those private ones are capped, and still doesn't solve the long travel route problem, check this out:
"While the Supercharger owned and operated by Tesla can deliver up to 120 kW (with a capacity of 145 kW), the ones sold to private companies by the automaker are capped to 60 kW for some unclear reasons." - electric.co article
"And you think this will hold up once they start pumping millions of Model 3 and the competition starts pumping EV's with their own superchargers? On a 800 mile route where there is no traffic jam but only big queues for each gas station (12/18/24 pumpstations) on 3x a 100 mile stretch within the 800 mile, how are we going to solve this issue if everyone would want to convert to EV?
A 24 stall gas station can handle an ICE car every 5 minutes. 12x24 = 288 cars per hour. which is really really low compared to the road capacity (20k / hr). There are about 80 gas stations along the total route but at about 30 the wait time at each is 1 hour.
A 24 stall supercharger can handle 24 cars an hour. meaning you'd need a parking lot of 288 with all supercharger stalls to match the capacity. You'd need about 80 of those along that 800 mile route just to match current capacity if EV's manage to get to same range of ICE cars. And then the wait time is till 1 hour at about 30 of the 80 locations. So to make EV long distance travelling a better experience then the current ICE cars you'd need to upgrade 30 of those locations to about 600 places parking lot with all places equipped with a supercharger.
Don't think this is a peak hour issue, its a vacation traffic issue and this issue arises twice a year: in winter it takes about 6 weeks with over 22 hours a day this type of traffic and in summer duration is about 12 weeks. And this is just an example of a short route, there are about 20 routes from 800 - 2000 miles and 10 of these routes have this issue in this severity.
A parking lot with 600 * $60k a lot is a $36 million investment. 24hr * 600 customers * 20$ = $288k a day would make it profitable within a year". -schaep
Full Article:
Tesla to deliver its largest privately-owned Supercharger station to a taxi fleet in Montreal
