I've seen photos on Plugshare of Rivian's and other EVs charging at this destination charger. I know for a fact our Lightning will not (tried it repeatedly). I've seen people claiming their Lightning charges just fine on a gen 1 Tesla wall charger at 60 amps but won't initiate a charge at 80 amps.
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Some follow-up: I ordered this from amazon, it arrived today and already successfully used it to charge the truck from the Tesla Wall Connector.
Where did that statistic come from? Just thinking of the EV owners I personally know, I don't know of any that regret the decision to go EV.
When I first tried the A2Z, I made a silly mistake. The lock on the adapter has to be engaged. I’ve had some Tesla stations where the lock wouldn’t close completely. BUT I have used Tesla from Florida to NC many times and it’s awesome.
Interesting. Didn't bother reading the article of what the journalists think the takeaway is. Instead clicking through to the actual data (https://executivedigest.sapo.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Mobility-Consumer-Pulse-2024_Overview.pdf) shows that 46% of Americans, but 29% worldwide, Australia was the highest with 49%. But the reasons is even more telling. 24% of those are complaining they can't charge at home. Reasonable complaint, and I'd never suggest an EV to this group. 34% say total cost of ownership is too high, which is odd to me that they got into an EV in the first place since the majority of EV TCoO is up front, unless this ties back in to not being able to charge at home and they're counting DCFC costs. The biggest reason, 35%, is the lack of public charging infrastructure. I think we all feel this, but as early adopters we should know that we're in a rough spot there. Ford is trying (and so far not really succeeding) at making this better. But since they've effectively abandoned their dealer charge network their only route forward is the NACS adapters, and they need to crank out far more every month to make this a success.
The thing is that it is not just Ford. Every EV manufacturer is dealing with this. And I don't consider us early adopters. EVs have been been out for almost 20 years. And while I love my truck for daily driving, if I got to to northern New Hampshire, say north of Concord it's pretty freaking sparse up there. And it's not just NH.
I get a lot of your frustration. But we are absolutely early adopters if we are using a method of propulsion without adequate refilling stations. EVs have been around for 20 years, longer really. But CCS is only 11 years old ("Volkswagen built the first public CCS quick-charge station providing 50 kW DC in Wolfsburg in June 2013": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System). Tesla pushed EVs and road trip charging harder than anyone with the superchargers, but were able to just invent their own proprietary connector. It wasn't until recently (< 2 years ago) that they decided to make it an open standard. We've been through the "wild west" period of charging, and we're now getting in to an age where it's becoming more stable. EVs may not be in the early adopter phase, but long distance charging absolutely is. Settling on NACS and distributing adapters is the start. "Travel stop" chains like Love's and Bucee's installing chargers is also boosting us. But until we have chargers as ubiquitous as gas stations were in the 50s, we're still in the early stages.
I understand your point. We are farther along than it seems people want to believe, BUT with a government mandating adoption and ICE sales this is only going to get dramatically worse. The infrastructure is not there for what we have now, and yet the current administration is forcing adoption onto a populace that clearly doesn't want it, and with an pathetic infrastructure that is unable to keep up.
