We all have different driving patterns.
Yes, obviously. My recommendation covers the vast majority of uses and is consistent with Tesla's own recommendations.
For people with consistent, regular driving patterns, and mostly local short distance, I see why the charging rate may not be important to them.
"not be important"? Wow. Why are you getting that? Of course it's important to everyone, but you need what you need. People shouldn't have a big U-Haul box truck as their daily driver because there is one or two times a year they need to move some furniture.
In my situation, much of my driving is c. 200 mile legs, without stopping at Superchargers. I arrive late, like midnight, and have to be ready for a lot of driving early the next morning. Other days, my wife makes an early 100 mile trip into the city before I leave in the afternoon.
OK, that's you, but sounds unusual. You really live in a place that doesn't have Superchargers around for these 200 mile driving trips? I would say that's not most people, so that would be a little odd to apply that recommendation to people's general cases.
But I regularly see people who spout the "average driver drives 12,000 miles per year, so you only need 38 miles per day" nonsense. Nobody, not a single person, drives exactly 38 miles a day 365 days a year. People have unexpected trips to airports, have to visit elderly parents or children in trouble, crazy traffic jams, holiday shopping, weather emergencies, and all the other stuff that makes life interesting.
On this, I very much agree, and it's why the other auto makers' dinky range compliance cars were a terrible idea. It's probably once or twice every month that people deviate out of that "40 miles" range, and then people are stressed. And of course that leads to people feeling the need to keep their batteries fully charged at 100% as much as possible to be prepared for that slight unexpected 60 or 70 miles, which of course leads to really bad quick degradation of those small batteries. But, the solution to these issues is a larger battery, so that you can do these long days once in a while without worrying about it.
Having quicker recharge can be mighty useful, even if not used every day.
Um, you're talking about needing to fast recharge at home from AC electricity within the same day? So that would be like a 300-400 mile driving day around town where you live without Supercharging. That is extremely unique and is getting into the "long tail" of the 0.01% use cases. If people have a long day of driving around town, they may use 150 or 200 miles, but then they're done, and they'll be able to recharge overnight. And overnight recharging at 40 or 48 amps can still easily refill that. And again, "having quicker recharge" as you are referring to can definitely be a Supercharger for those weird once or twice a year situations.
A car charger should, at least in my opinion, be overspeced because sometimes you do need it. (Yes, you can go to a Supercharger or an emergency homeless shelter. I prefer not to.)
Well, your preference is unusual. Most people wouldn't mind getting to use an ultra fast and cheap charging station a couple of times a year for those edge cases.
BTW, the Tesla Wall Charger Manual recommends a 90 A circuit. Not my imagination or unusual driving patterns.
That is utter B.S. and I dare you to quote it. I'm certain that's not recommended by Tesla from the web site on Tesla's own site I showed earlier that showed that they "recommend" 60A circuits and from the fact that none of the vehicles they are building now can draw more than what would be supplied by a 60A circuit. So you can call it your imagination or whatever, but I'm sure the manual doesn't recommend a 90A circuit as a general thing for new Tesla buyers.
