Actually only three or four states. Tesla has the same issue where some states don't let you charger by kWh. You can look at the Tesla charger rates to research it. It's not many.
I listed 5 actual states where EA actually charges by min. You come back that it's only 3 or 4 states, which is demonstrably false.
Eyup not many as EA has stated it was going to per kWh pricing nationally last year. Most of the states that require charge by hour are changing the outdated regs which were not written with EV charging in mind.
Musk is nothing if not a business genius.. opening his charging network to all EVs should allow him to get a chunk of that new EV infrastructure bill. ;-)
This is only in Norway where they already have CCS cables on their Superchargers. In the US they use the proprietary supercharger plug. They could do the same in the Us but highly unlikely for a while. It’s a huge advantage for Tesla.
If my math is correct....
This is the best info we have at the moment:
This is the best info we have at the moment:
That gets you to 80%.
If the Mach E is any indication, you don't want to sit around waiting to charge to 100%. It drops off a cliff down to only ~10kW after 80%, which is only going to get you ~20 miles of range per hour on a Lightning.
You're MUCH better off moving along to your next charger/destination unless you HAVE to have the last 20% to get there.
Hopefully, the charging profile improves on the Mach E and Lightning before then, AND the Lightning may end up charging faster than the Mach E based on the substantially larger batteries, too. Hard to say at this point. But, it definitely looks like you're going to want to move along rather than keep charging after 80%.
As far as "slow charging", if you mean "240V", then that will *probably* cost you less than $0.31/kWh, but you can see it will also take a long, long time. Many public "Level 2" charging stations are actually only 200V and ~32A, so just 6.4kW, which means you're looking at that slowest level: 14hrs for Standard Range, 19hrs for Extended Range.
Also, just realized that the Lightning Spec Sheet has a typo, saying "32A/240W" when it should say "240V".
However the majority of these drivers will be using their Homes as their "gas station" for these EVs with overnight recharge being the majority of it. Meaning no real wait time. The 45 minute wait applies to the times where in a single drive or round trip (if you can't top off at your destination) you need to fill up on the go. ICE Drivers have to spend 10 minutes to fill up no matter what.
actually, using the above math, going from 10% to 80% for the extended battery at $.31/kwh would be $33.64 (since you would be adding 70% of the total, which would be 108.5kwh)
