V4 Supercharger, how fast should it be?

[NoseyReporter]

There a new bank of V4 super chargers in Pasadena, right next to the Trader Joes on Lake. I've been eye it every weekend on my bike ride, and it finally became operational.

I had to charge the Gravity, so I precondition the battery and arrive at the station with a 37% charge.

Disappointingly, the car was only able to pull 220KW. In reality the performance wasn't any different from any other supercharger I've gone to. I thought these V4 chargers were higher voltages, and that I would receive a much higher KW than 220. For reference, the car did not tell me the charger performance was being limited by the charger.

Am I mistaken?

 

[DeaneG]

There a new bank of V4 super chargers in Pasadena, right next to the Trader Joes on Lake. I've been eye it every weekend on my bike ride, and it finally became operational.
Disappointingly, the car was only able to pull 220KW. In reality the performance wasn't any different from any other supercharger I've gone to. I thought these V4 chargers were higher voltages...

If you saw 220kW, then that is a V4 pedestal backed by a 450V V3 power cabinet, often referred to as V3+ or V3.5.
There is only one V4 location in the USA operating now, in Redwood City CA, and it's not available to non-tesla cars yet.

 

[NoseyReporter]

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

Dang I really thought it was v4. It shows 325KW on this map.

And according to the Tesla website:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=34.71024639978734%2C-116.744396%2C33.51072503334801%2C-119.556896&location=4004054

325KW

 

[9point81]

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

Dang I really thought it was v4. It shows 325KW on this map.

And according to the Tesla website:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=34.71024639978734%2C-116.744396%2C33.51072503334801%2C-119.556896&location=4004054

325KW

Tesla only has one true V4 stall active in the US right now and it's not open to non Teslas at this time. Most people refer to the ones you tried as v3.5 stalls/units.

 

[PetevB]

True V4 shows 500KW on the same map.

 

[NoseyReporter]

Mmmm I had no idea. Ok

 

[RandomDesign]

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

Dang I really thought it was v4. It shows 325KW on this map.

And according to the Tesla website:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=34.71024639978734%2C-116.744396%2C33.51072503334801%2C-119.556896&location=4004054

325KW

Just for comparison, this is the only V4 Supercharger in the US (and currently Tesla only): https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds...1524&location=35474&functionType=supercharger

 

[NoseyReporter]

Just for comparison, this is the only V4 Supercharger in the US (and currently Tesla only): https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=37.56096161507529,-121.99679074438477,37.38944397775442,-122.43452725561524&location=35474&functionType=supercharger

Thanks!

 

[Tâm]

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

Dang I really thought it was v4. It shows 325KW on this map.

And according to the Tesla website:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=34.71024639978734%2C-116.744396%2C33.51072503334801%2C-119.556896&location=4004054

325KW

325 is the charger's specs for 400V Tesla Supercharger.

Lucid's specs are:

"926V Lucid Gravity to charge seamlessly at up to 400 kW on 1000V charging equipment and at sustained speeds of up to 225 kW on 500V architecture fast chargers"

It doesn't matter if its named "V4" Tesla supercharger. What counts is its voltage. As others said all except 1 V4 is 800V.