The main benefit is not having shared cabinets, so you never have your charging rate cut by someone who doesn't understand shared cabinets parking at the A that matches your B, or someone being forced to share due to the location being anything over 50% capacity.
This is regardless of driving style.
If you drive like Kyle Conner, driving for 100 miles, arrive at low SOC and only charge up to 50% or 60% before heading out, you up your ground speed (including charging time) from 67 mph on V2 to 71 mph on V3. This is not including time lost to getting off the highway, plugging in, and getting back on the highway. So, driving this way you get a 4 mph advantage from V3! This is significant over a 1000 mile trip (saves around 40 min), but for people going a few hundred miles it is negligible.
If you drive more normally, 150 miles or so, charging up to 75% to 80% your ground speed including charging time goes from 65 mph on V2 to 68 mph on V3. Once again, this is not including time lost to getting off the highway, plugging in, and getting back on the highway. It only makes a very small difference in how fast you can cover ground on a road trip. Driving this way you get a 3 mph advantage from V3! Once again, this is significant over a 1000 mile trip (saves around 35 min), but for people going a few hundred miles it is negligible.
The only time it would make a significant difference would be if they put V3 superchargers 60 miles apart and you were willing to stop at every one. That would increase your ground speed a bit... but due to the time to stop, plug in, and then get back on the highway even then it might be a wash time management wise... and definitely not worth the hassle in my opinion even if it DID significantly speed up a trip.
Later,
Keith
PS: Charging profiles may have changed since I compiled the charging speed data in the attached word document...
PPS: Can't edit title... should have been "of" V3 supercharging... not "is" V3 supercharging
This is regardless of driving style.
If you drive like Kyle Conner, driving for 100 miles, arrive at low SOC and only charge up to 50% or 60% before heading out, you up your ground speed (including charging time) from 67 mph on V2 to 71 mph on V3. This is not including time lost to getting off the highway, plugging in, and getting back on the highway. So, driving this way you get a 4 mph advantage from V3! This is significant over a 1000 mile trip (saves around 40 min), but for people going a few hundred miles it is negligible.
If you drive more normally, 150 miles or so, charging up to 75% to 80% your ground speed including charging time goes from 65 mph on V2 to 68 mph on V3. Once again, this is not including time lost to getting off the highway, plugging in, and getting back on the highway. It only makes a very small difference in how fast you can cover ground on a road trip. Driving this way you get a 3 mph advantage from V3! Once again, this is significant over a 1000 mile trip (saves around 35 min), but for people going a few hundred miles it is negligible.
The only time it would make a significant difference would be if they put V3 superchargers 60 miles apart and you were willing to stop at every one. That would increase your ground speed a bit... but due to the time to stop, plug in, and then get back on the highway even then it might be a wash time management wise... and definitely not worth the hassle in my opinion even if it DID significantly speed up a trip.
Later,
Keith
PS: Charging profiles may have changed since I compiled the charging speed data in the attached word document...
PPS: Can't edit title... should have been "of" V3 supercharging... not "is" V3 supercharging
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