Taking "reservations" for now. My takeaway is that if one company is rolling this out, others are too. I would wait for a Siemens or Matsushita version. To be clear - this requires a vehicle that will output power through the charging port.
I would suggest that people make choices like this when the pocketbook economics are compelling. When Skywell brings in a sub $30,000 cdn 7 seat SUV - all electric, the choice won't require compromise. If it's cheaper upfront, and cheaper to operate there's no math required.
Well, it's the only solution that will get mass adoption. Telling people to rent a car whenever they leave town isn't going to cut it. It just paints EVs as being inferior to ICE. Why do this?
Except they can't, and won't be able to for more than a few years. There are fewer filling stations, and they take longer. Road trips will require extra hours, not minutes, for charging. Not everyone can charge at home, so people who live in rental homes, places with unreliable electrical service, or in multi-resident buildings have to make other plans to recharge.
Called fast DC chargers, not filling stations, there are two alternatives: CCS-1 or SuperChargers. We have experience with our 2014 BMW i3-REx, CCS-1, and 2019 Std Rng Plus Model 3, SuperCharger:
Or called L2 EVSE, or called Superchargers......they all do the same thing of providing energy to the battery. They're all "filling" the battery. It's a term to collectively describe what they do - a place filled with EVSE of various speeds and power levels.
This is only true for certain vehicles in the short term. Far more infrastructure will be built out - there are plans everywhere for it. Secondly, battery technology is steadily improving to allow for faster charge times and car ranges are increasing.
Most drivers can already charge at home and many rental places already have some charging infrastructure available. More apartments and hotels will put out infrastructure as more EVs sell. No need to force it.
Yes, which is what I said; thanks for making my point for me. It's where we're all going, but we're not there now. Now, if people want to drive electric they have to mentally be prepared that they can't drive it like they do an ICE (that's the paradigm shift I wrote about). That's especially true for those in rentals and apartment buildings, who won't be able to charge at home, until - according to you - they wait more than a few years until the number of EV sales rise. The percentage of EVs on the roads in the US is only about 2%; while that number is growing, the rate of growth is slowing. It's not as if this change will be here in the next couple of years.
You actually make a good point here, but I wish you would keep politics out of it. I have made several long trips in my Kona EV that I previously did with an ICE car. And that EV is far from having the fastest charger. Yet it took about the same time to reach my destinations. As you say, filling an ICE car up at gas stations is wasted time, as you still need to eat and take bio breaks. I have told this to my non-EV friends many times, but they are still skeptical. But I am winning, because they too now are looking at new EVs coming out and which would be the best to buy.
What I meant re the time for me, is that there is no BEV available just yet that can take me to my cabin in the summer (rough FSR) and pull my boat, that would make financial sense to replace my ICE vehicle. And the Hummer and Ford Lightning are certainly not candidates to do that. The Solterra might. And we will always need a 2nd vehicle to drive.
Forest Service Road, originally built and used by loggers,... now for recreation and access to wilderness areas. Sorry, it is a label very familiar with off-roaders.
That's me, but no need to tow any vehicles - it's the reason I switched from a Leaf to a Tesla. It's only the last 5-ish miles that are on an unpaved road, and I pass 3 Superchargers along the way before I get there.