which EA stations did you visit? i'm doing this route soon (SF to LA).
I feel your pain. I do the LA to SF trip often and try to avoid EA like the plague. How they’re not being investigated is beyond me. They have to meet certain criteria as part of the diesel gate punishment and I’m sure they’re not delivering. CA likes to gouge companies for money they should go after them with with fines for delivering such a shit network.
I tried Harris Ranch and Panoche shell the past week. Both locations were speed limited and one of the 350Kw chargers at Harris Ranch wouldn’t work even though it said it was online.
Consider a Tesla Tap for any destination chargers. They don’t work with super chargers but if your hotel has one you can juice for free
LUCID screwed up by not vetting EA properly or not requiring a certain % of chargers at each station to not only operate but deliver the stated KW/H speed up to the vehicle's ability. I recently went to an EA station in Boca Raton ... 4 of the 5 stations were inoperable and the one I used required a call to EA because it didn't recognize my LUCID and wanted to charge me. EA's service/repair operation is an oxymoron.
To be fair… with nearly 500 miles range, you probably won’t be stuck in most places on the east coast. EA is challenging, yes, but there is often another not too far down the road in range of the monster efficiency of these cars. Nearly double the range of the average Tesla. Is EA an issue? Yes. Should it cause anyone with an Air range anxiety? No way!
What choice did they have?
not sure ...maybe an investment into reliable charging ....that is what Musk did and that decision was essential to Tesla's success.
That would be at least a $5 billion effort over a period of several years. Right now it does seem like a good idea though.
Charging still causes me anxiety! My DE-P does have more range than Teslas do but just driving from Houston to Dallas and back has been an issue in cold weather and having to find working DCFCs. My son drove his Model S from Houston to Tampa and had to stop and charge often but never had an issue finding a working Telsa super-charger.
Don't believe that figuring on 500 miles is wise. I would love to know if anyone is getting close to 500 miles. My experience is about half of miles that the car shows. I do drive "normally" ...that is not under the speed limit and have 21 tires and listen to radio and use A/C. Assume everyone uses those features pretty much all the time.
don't know where that number came from. I wasn't suggesting LUCID build its own network but they should have done a better job of ensuring EA's stations worked properly and that EA had sufficient trained personnel to keep the stations operating. An investment into EA ... both time and $$$ would have been wise. The more bad press EA and other charging stations get, the less LUCIDS will be sold.
An approximation taken from the federal infrastructure money allocated for EV charging ($7.5B), and the number of DC fast chargers they expect to install with this money compared to the number already in existence.
