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Have you ever waited to charge on a DC Charger? (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Hi everyone,

I’m a long time EV driver (first one being a Twizzy back in 2013) and I was wondering: have you ever waited to charge on DC fast charger on the highway for example?

One of my ev-skeptic colleagues told me I saw multiple lines of multiple EVs waiting to charge on the highway this summer. I never witnessed it or being through this myself and I’m more incline to think that this is grossly exaggerated but you never really know… so have you had such experience?

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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have waited with my older Leaf, but that's only because it needs the Chademo plug and there's usually only one per charging location.

I recently had my first road trip between major cities with my other EV with a CCS port. Twice I pulled up to an EA charger that was full, but there was another charger within range. I found that experience to be frustrating, but I could have looked at the app to see if chargers were available before I got there.

I guess I was frustrated because I paid for an EA plan to save a bit on charging but then ended up paying a premium at Tesla chargers because the EA chargers were full.