BostonBurley
Sorry. Bipolar.
Yep! My wife had an i3 when Paseo rooftop chargers opened, now she drives a Bolt. They both have peak 50kw charge speed, so that rooftop has been utilized by us both probably in excess of 50 times. However, it’s very slow for L3 charging, but then again, bc this is a shopping and dining destination, and I guess apply Equinox as well, they opted for Tesla City chargers (72kw). That way you have something like 60-90 minutes to charge… too long to stay in the car with all that shopping calling your name (and/or validation). The restaurants we’ve tried have been decent, and the H&M store is very large but all one floor, so the family all goes in together, gets lost shopping, and our apps eventually say charging will be complete soon.There are 6 DCFCs, the 4 Tritium and the two 50kW Veefil units co-located with Tesla Superchargers. The L2 chargers never showed up. And yes, the lot is large enough to certainly add more chargers of any variety.
I think the City learned one lesson after the Marengo charging plaza was built. They put in 20 of the 50kW Veefil units that are very, very underutilized, even though the electricity is still free there. The Superchargers in that Marengo plaza are a big hit. The Tritium chargers at Glenarm were no doubt designed or envisioned as "next gen" chargers that could provide higher power, so they installed 4, and only two Veefil. The next lesson learned was that the provider they initially selected apparently had little desire to maintain the chargers, which were often inoperable. Having 4 operable 150kW Tritium DCFCs would make a lot of people happy. All they are doing now, when inoperative, is steering EV drivers to buy Teslas.
I stopped by the Marengo site this morning to get Starbucks. I have a bunch of Stars, so my coffee is free, and they validate for parking, so I only pay for the Supercharger cost. I noticed a Taycan and Mache both using the free Veefil chargers when I left. Anyone owning an EV with CCS/Chademo and having any reason to hit that mall for any duration of time has an ideal use case for jumping on the free charging available, especially with the free parking. I would imagine going forward that more people will start figuring this out. If you don't have residential or work charging, and have a short commute, you can hit the Yard House for dinner one night a week and get free gas that could last the whole week.
RT
I wish we could swap glenarm’s number of chargers for Paseo’s, but keep the V3 L3.