I was out and about the other day and knew I needed to charge. I could make it home without charging, would probably be around 10%, but I wouldn't have time to get meaningful charge before heading back out to take kids to stuff which would make it pretty tight. The nearest supercharger would add 25 minutes of driving. Just out of curiosity I opened up plugshare to see if there were any L2 chargers at any of the stores I had to hit on my way home and it was showing a Tesla Level 3 plug, and it was in a shopping center that had the type of store I needed to visit (grocery, hardware, etc). I wasn't aware that EVGo had started offering Tesla connectors so I figured it was an error, but since I could make it home if it was wrong, I tried it out.
Long story short, it worked great. I got 50kw, which I understand isn't as fast as superchargers, but was plenty fast for my needs. My battery is 70kwh so that's theoretically over an hour from empty to full, but I rarely fast charge for more than ~30 minutes so in my case it gets me a good 35-40% so that I can keep on rolling.
It was only a single plug, though, so it won't be great for wide adoption, but was a nice surprise. The initial account setup was a little buggy and I had to ultimately call someone to get the first session started but I was charging within 5 minutes of pulling up to the station. After getting the EVGo app I see that there are lots of these stations around me, pretty cool.
Long story short, it worked great. I got 50kw, which I understand isn't as fast as superchargers, but was plenty fast for my needs. My battery is 70kwh so that's theoretically over an hour from empty to full, but I rarely fast charge for more than ~30 minutes so in my case it gets me a good 35-40% so that I can keep on rolling.
It was only a single plug, though, so it won't be great for wide adoption, but was a nice surprise. The initial account setup was a little buggy and I had to ultimately call someone to get the first session started but I was charging within 5 minutes of pulling up to the station. After getting the EVGo app I see that there are lots of these stations around me, pretty cool.