Electrify America vs BMW i3-REx

JyChevyVolt said:
Haha, I don't remember my college professors name. All I remember was the PE teacher that taught Russian study.
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I see, Quinn is a popular teacher at Edmonds Woodway, teaches English and Theory of Knowledge. I have known him for a long time... great guy. He also was a co-founder of allrecepies.com in college
 
After the Manchester disaster, I started looking at an L2 route Huntsville-to-Nashville. Turns out Blink pretty much has a lock on L2 chargers but I've been burned by ones derated to 16A. So I asked Blink and they report:

Blink Level 2 stations are limited to a maximum of 30A and the vast majority are set to 24-30A as is the case with most public chargers.​

If I decide to risk it, I'll survey the EVSEs with a tester to measure the pilot signal duty cycle and read out the available current. Then I'll record the results in PlugShare.

Bob Wilson
 
Sorry, had some sort of brain freeze. Was thinking these were DCFC stations. Couldn't figure out the low amperages. Now it makes sense. Doh!
 
bwilson4web said:
August 1, I drove to Manchester TN to try the new Electrify American (VW diesel penalty) charging station. It was awkward but after about 15-20 minuets, I was able to get a charge started. So I took a break and came back to find it had stopped at about 44%. I restarted it and completed the charge but there were a lot of aborted starts. Regardless, I got home and called to check on the credit card charges. They only charged for the second half and took my report.

I still needed to know if I could use it reliability so I drove there this morning, August 24:
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I started with the same station I'd used before and no luck. So I called the support number. An hour later, we had tried each of the four chargers, multiple times, including support doing a remote reset. There were several times when they reported "Payment accepted" only to have it stop within 10 seconds. The worst was this error message:
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So I pointed to Huntsville and the REx carried me home. There I tested the CCS, fast DC charger with a Nissan unit and it worked. I called Electrify America to let them know my car is OK. They plan to call me when their technician resolves the problem(s).

Bob Wilson
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its good they are working with you. I would expect a few problems so you are helping us all. When I look on their website todfay 9-13-2018 they have 12 locations up and hopefully working. It's great they have 4-10 ports at each location. But you tried them all so it must be a software issue on top of the CCS communication.
Too had a Chevy or other CCS vehicle didn't come by so you would also have a side by side comparison to get them going on a fix.
 
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