charging at EA

[GEWC]

My delay was due to a temporary suspension on all vehicle deliveries in March due to a production issue. Again, my plan says 3/4, but I didn't get the car until 3/29, not by my choice.

Odd. I was caught in the same delay and got my car on 3/30, which is the start date of my EA plan. @SaratogaLefty is the one who discovered that EA isn't sctivated immediately - during his walkthrough, so I am surprised. Perhaps it is the service center staff that activates it?

 

[HC_79]

Saw this at the bank the other day where the EA chargers are. Thankfully it was only blocking one, but it was definitely on purpose. The lot is small but never full and the EA spots are tight.

If you can be bothered sticking around you can get them towed. It's illegal to be parked in an EV charging spot when not charging or for an ICE vehicle to park in them. I've had this happen a couple of times in a parking garage and they've been more than happy to call the towing company. One car parked diagonally across 2 spots so it's clear it was deliberate.

 

[WildRide47]

I think it depends on how long you plan to keep the car. Lucid has a warranty for 8 years on the battery, and from the data that Tesla users have seen, even fast charging everyday, you most likely will not push the battery out of warranty in that time frame. Very smart for the warranty but what it really means is that if you aren't planning on keeping the car for 20 years or whatever, you can do pretty much anything to it and the degradation wouldn't be TOO far outside normal degradation. Just don't charge to 100 and drain down to 0. If you keep it 20-80%, fast charging once a week probably won't do much of anything. @hmp10 referenced before some studies that the main culprit of battery degradation is # of charge cycles and not specifically fast charging.

Not a battery engineer, not an engineer, nor a chemist, nor anything scientific!

Thank you. That is what I was hoping to hear. I do only charge from 20% to 80% once a week, as the DA who delivered my car set the scale to stop at the 80% level.

Since I rarely keep a car for more than 4-5 years, based on what you are saying I should be OK.

Since I pass by the Target parking lot every day on my daily errands, I can see from the street whether there are cars at the charging station. If there are, then I agree I will not waste my time, nor want to cause a backup for someone else .

Only if I see they are empty, will I pull in for my weekly charge. For whatever reasons, the EA station there seems to be mostly empty almost all the time.

 

[MPawelek]

All of the stations in my area are only full on weekends. I gather the vast majority of EV owners charge at home and only stop at charging stations if on a trip during weekends.

 

[hydbob]

I like going to the EA station near me to see other EVs. Also to show off the Lucid.

 

[Tesla2.0]

I’m at around Round Rock, Texas. 20 chargers here!!!! WOW!
First I found 4x 350kw fast charger, they are out of order. I’ll settle with Level-2 150kw. I have yet experience Level-3.

 

[Tesla2.0]

The Porsche Taycan parked to me had issue with credit card being accepted to use EA.

They don’t get free charge like we do???

 

[DeaneG]

I'll bet that is one of EA's largest installations. Many are only 4 or 6 stalls.

BTW All DC fast chargers are level 3. 50kW, 150kW, 350kW are all level 3.
Level 2 is 240V AC charging, often 6.6kW, but the Air can handle up to 19kW if the L2 station can provide it.
Level 1 is 120V AC charging, usually about 1kW.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

I like going to the EA station near me to see other EVs. Also to show off the Lucid.

Yeah 100%, the ID4 drivers will peer longingly out their window as they see me pull in and then leave 15 min later and see I blasted 200 miles into the car for zero dollars.

 

[hydbob]

Yeah 100%, the ID4 drivers will peer longingly out their window as they see me pull in and then leave 15 min later and see I blasted 200 miles into the car for zero dollars.

Yea, a lot of people like to look at the charge screen to see 1)how fast you are charging and then 2) to see how many kwh you did in such a small time

 

[MikeTz]

The Porsche Taycan parked to me had issue with credit card being accepted to use EA.

They don’t get free charge like we do???

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The Taycan has free charging. If I am not mistaken, there is a 30-minute limit per connection, and if there are multiple connections they must be 90 plus miles apart.

 

[Tesla2.0]

The Taycan has free charging. If I am not mistaken, there is a 30-minute limit per connection, and if there are multiple connections they must be 90 plus miles apart.

Maybe they don’t have auto-detection like Lucid does? I just plug and go. Taycan has to keep doing swiper going thru stalls.

 

[MikeTz]

Maybe they don’t have auto-detection like Lucid does? I just plug and go. Taycan has to keep doing swiper going thru stalls.

EA auto-detects the Taycan.

 

[Tesla2.0]

EA auto-detects the Taycan.

Then I don’t get it. They keep switching stalls and swiping. And I ended up offer help.

 

[Tesla2.0]

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Driver looks like 6’2”, with 2 passengers, wife and a teenager. That doesn’t look like comfortable long drive car to me at all. I have an ICE Porshe, I certainly wouldn’t want to take my family on road trip with that.

 

[Sandvinsd]

Here are the different free charging offers by EV manufacturers. Most are for the EA network.

Here Are All the EVs That Come With Free Charging | Edmunds

Most long-range electric vehicles come with some sort of free charging. Check out this list of every new EV with complimentary charging from the Edmunds experts.

www.edmunds.com

 

[MPawelek]

That chart shows the free charging for Lucid for all orders before the end of this month. So does that mean the offer is null after the price increase?

 

[Tesla2.0]

Here are the different free charging offers by EV manufacturers. Most are for the EA network.

Here Are All the EVs That Come With Free Charging | Edmunds

Most long-range electric vehicles come with some sort of free charging. Check out this list of every new EV with complimentary charging from the Edmunds experts.

www.edmunds.com

That just means That Taycan got cut off in middle of charging.

 

[Tesla2.0]

I just downloaded EA app, and filtered stations with 350kW. VOILA!!!! This much simply means Volkswagen is coming to America to contest Tesla on EV market.

 

[Sandvinsd]

That chart shows the free charging for Lucid for all orders before the end of this month. So does that mean the offer is null after the price increase?

Lucid website says free charging for orders placed before 6/30. Do not know if they will extend it, or drop it down to something like 1 or 2 years. Nissan had a 2-year free charging when we got the Leaf. now they only give a $250 credit