Wendy
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My friends have a lot in Eastern Washington, in an area where the closest charger is about 30 miles away and right on a highway. They looked into installing 12 charging stations (there is a WA State Program that was offering to cover 25% of the cost). But ran into some big issues with installing stations:Perhaps the simplest solution is to have more EV chargers and eliminate charging deserts!
I know this is not the least costly solution, but the DCFC owners/operators have the data to tell them if they need to add more charging positions at a particular location due to high usage. But then again they are trying to make as much as possible with the smallest investment possible as they are for profit companies. User wait time is probably low on the list of priorities for most of them! Not to mention the problems many of them seem to have with up time of their existing DCFCs and the number that have slow 50kWh speeds.
Many of the places I have DCFC’d other than Tesla (I admit that other than my 1500 mile trip home when I purchased my Lightning I haven’t used any since having the FCSP installed) have only had a 1-4 boxes(not sure what to call them other than that) and one to two cables from each box sometimes only one of them Is CCS and the other one is Chademo or whatever the hell it is. I have only been to three Tesla superchargers that had the magic dock and they had at least eight positions. One of the videos I saw posted on this forum there was one supercharger location that had 50 something I think.
We are still in the early adopter stage as far as over the road charging goes, and hopefully competition will not only increase the number of locations, but make it less expensive over time…. well, at least more locations! More locations are coming online. I won’t say every day but every month maybe-LOL
The Power Company said they did not have the capacity, but could allow 3-4 stations.
The program ran out of money.
Even at 25% of the cost it was a huge amount of money for the stations and they would have to look for a 'partner' in one of the networks to fund the installation.
They hope to have an opportunity if more funds come available. I guess Tesla just has unlimited $$$ to build more stations.
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