Are We Asking the Wrong Question About Charging?

[hmp10]

If you live on the West Coast where chargers seem to be both more ubiquitous and more reliable than elsewhere in the U.S. and you want to understand why some people want to charge above 80%, you might want to watch this video. It's why I find EA's limiting charging at some stations to 85% to be condescending to the point of insulting and a serious case of denial about what their system is like to many EV owners.

 

[borski]

The 2 cycle test is definitely less $ but I also thought that it resulted in a lower rated range. At least, that has been the explanation on why the Taycans normally exceeds its rated range in tests pretty significantly.

It does/did. I don't know about the new EPA calculations, but it resulting in a lower range is why manufacturers exceed the range, which is what makes it unrealistic. The 5-cycle EPA test tried to fix that by making it more realistic, but it went too far.

They will eventually find a middle ground (and maybe the new calculation methods already have, I don't know)

 

[borski]

Also, if you look at the Lucid trims, the Pure and Touring have smaller batteries, but I don't understand why their charging time is as long as owners of these trims reported. I am not convinced it is a technical limiter.

It is a technical limitation. The fewer the batteries, the lower the cumulative voltage, the lower the maximum charging speed. That's physics, not a conspiracy.