Hi everyone,
I’m a long time EV driver (first one being a Twizzy back in 2013) and I was wondering: have you ever waited to charge on DC fast charger on the highway for example?
One of my ev-skeptic colleagues told me I saw multiple lines of multiple EVs waiting to charge on the highway this summer. I never witnessed it or being through this myself and I’m more incline to think that this is grossly exaggerated but you never really know… so have you had such experience?
Here in Estonia, you sometimes wait for a ChaDemo cable to become available.
The operators of charger networks forbid hitting the red button (emergency disconnect) under any conditions unless it’s an emergency.
There’s a silent agreement among drivers that lack of charging opportunities is an emergency. :D If the other guy is not present and their battery has reached 80% or more (charging has slowed to a trickle and they have enough range to drive), it’s considered OK to hit the red button and hijack the cable.
But alas, some cars (guess which, the ones without door handles, specially designed for suicidal drivers) sometimes won’t release the cable.
You also frequently call customer support to restart chargers and watch Linux boot messages scroll by, and complain until blue in the face about specific chargers that stop working for some specific cars in cold weather.
In short, it’s pretty close to a mess. :o