Aas a Previous Bolt owner of more thna 3 years I am saying ..Get them te hell off off of any chargers faster than 50Kw ..It wasnt just me it's tens OF THOUSAND OF OTHER EV DRIVERS that are strugglinmg to find faster chargers and when they do theere will invariably be an UBer driver in a Bolt charging for an hour to 2 hours ... It needs to stop..
Same as wehn ID 4 Owbners were clogging Chargers .charging to 100% because of "free charging".. that was ixed with VW lowering charging time to 30 minutes free. Which I can atest no matter the weather gets you to 80%.
The legislation I am talking about is that All NEW EVs should have a mininum charging rate wheter it is 100-150kW .
a Mininum charging rate will assure that no vehicle can be clogging up any DCFC for more than maybe 45 minutes. I think that is a very very reasonalble solution.
The ONLY reason todays ICE vehicles get 30 mpg plus is because of CAFE (legislation), Auto Industry will never do thiese things on thier own, theyneed to bepushed to make those change .
Legislation is GOOD when done right. No reason to act like laws are un necessary, thats ludicrous. We just need to PARTAKE in those legislations to make sure they are created with common sense.
I understand your frustration, I've had had to wait for a charger on a trip before, but don't get sucked in to the idea that the infrastructure problem is going to magically go away by legislating how fast a car has to charge.
So you are inconvenienced and the government is going to fix the problem somehow by creating legislation that tells someone making electric cars how they must make them, potentially adding a couple thousand dollars to the price of the vehicle? Assuming the legislation passes tomorrow, for the next few years you still won't have a DCFC available when you are traveling because there still are not enough chargers, because these same governments have passed legislation mandating that we have electric cars, without having the electric infrastructure and charging stations to handle it. So we create a problem, with legislation, and the solution to that problem is more legislation that doesn't even fix your problem?
Your problem is lack of charging infrastructure, not how fast the cars charge. If there were 20 stalls there with 10 bolts all charging, and 10 empties. You pull in and it won't let you charge over 50KWH because there is too much demand at this time. Hmm, I think it would be REASONABLE to create legislation that says if *I* pull up at a charging station, and my car charges at 300 (I can charge faster), my car should get priority, they should have to turn off charging to 5 other vehicles charging at only 50KWH, so I can charge in 20 minutes and be on my way. After all anyone who drives for a living would not be inconvenienced by taking an extra 20 or 30 minutes to charge, they should buy a better car if it's a problem.
The auto industry was well on it's way to solving a number of issues thru engineering in the 70's. Engine lifetimes, fuel economy, and weight, had been shedding from vehicles for some time, which created safety issues, which were also being resolved. The CAFE standards actually made it WORSE, by requiring things like AIR PUMPS which dramatically lowered fuel economy. Further unleaded fuel exacerbated the issue, because the materials science was not yet in play to handle the lubrication and temperature issues of unleaded fuel. Now for California, it was really bad, they needed to do something, you couldn't breath in LA for a while there, but even at the time the automotive engineers were saying that with a few small breakthru's in materials science they could improve the efficiency of burning the fuel, thereby reducing tailpipe emissions naturally by improving the combustion process. This was going to happen with or without CAFE.
The giant boost in economy occurred first in the trucking industry. Let's just say they are in general very sensitive to the cost of fuel, and fuel consumption. Literally overnight, Mercedes came up with a reliable way to increase the pressure and atomize fuel in the injector system on the big diesel trucks. This caused a 25-50% improvement in fuel economy, and improved emissions. I worked for a trucking company at the time, they replaced every tractor, the bulk of which they had just purchased at 150K a pop, over the course of the next six months. (60-100). It paid for itself in fuel savings over the six months that followed. The tech trickled over into cars. OTR Trucks were/are exempt from fuel mileage standards, it's the "loophole" that lets the car companies sell big diesel pickup trucks.
