When was the last time you extensively drove a CCS car? (DCFC is all fast charging formats, Tesla Supercharger, CCS, CHAdeMO)
2018 - Was not possible to go interstate on all routes, all CCS /CHAdeMO is under 100kW.
2019 - First >100kW CCS is deployed, it becomes possible to travel coast to coast by CCS.
2020 - Number of CCS sites achieves parity with Supercharger sites. First Electrify America sites start popping up with 350 kW capability.
2021 - Most interstate routes have CCS support. # of CCS and CHAdeMO sites surpass SC sites.
2022 - There are 5,569 CCS sites, 5,419 CHAdeMO sites, and 1,525 Tesla sites. This is why Tesla needs to produce a CCS<>SC adapter set.
Try the following exercise.
(1) Go to plugshare.
(2) Filter Plugs to CCS/SAE only
(3) Remove Coming Soon
(4) Move map to show Maine
OK, North and East there's next to nothing, but there are at least some that can help. We've used some of those locations in our Kona..
(5) Zoom in so only the current chargers are shown.
(6) Set minimum power to 50kW.
The odd charger is eliminated where there's a 24kW at a dealer.
(7) Set minimum power to 70kW
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Alakazam! Only 4 locations remain, the most northerly is in Westbrook, ME, which is west of Portland, ME.
Now you can zoom in a bit more.
(8) Set minimum power to 120kW
2 locations remain, the most northerly in Scarborough, ME, south of Portland, ME. .
(9) Zoom out to show the whole of Maine
(10) Change plug filter to Tesla (fast)
Count the number of locations in Maine. Consider that all but one of those locations has at least 8 stalls. (Jackman, ME has 4 )
(11) Change the plug back to CCS/SAE.
Last month we went on a roadtrip and didn't take our Kona because in a hurry after a change of plans (thanks Delta!) we thought we'd be heading to western West Virginia getting to our destination would depend on availability of a single 24kW CCS.
Next month we'll be going to the Maritimes and to do it I'll be depending on multiple locations with single 50kW CCS chargers (1) working (2) not busy.
I _really_ wish PlugShare had a "Minimum number of chargers" filter and a "minimum number of plugs" filter, so we could have the map without it being cluttered by sites I'd want to avoid if possible.