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I'm gonna ask a stupid, and probably redundant question about Electrify America

7K views 53 replies 20 participants last post by  toddggg 
Ha, yeah, 150 ain't goin to 350. But the 350 nearest my house doesn’t either!

I'll admit my experience is limited because I've haven’t taken the car on an actual road trip yet, and completely anecdotal because I don’t stand there and watch it. However, I was curious during my first EA charging experience, which was at a 350, and a Lucid Air (first and only I've ever seen IRL) was on the other cable. I was expecting to see something approaching 350 since that's what the sticker said, or maybe half, so 175 (what do I know? never done it before).

That session started in the single digits, ramped up to about 130 (when I had to run to the store and buy dog food) and when I returned was in the 80-90 range. That took it from 16% to 71% in 30 mins. So that's an average of around 100.

Subsequently, I only use EA if I'm going to drive beyond the point of return to home. On those days I plan for the location that I can arrive at with ~20%, only charge to 80%, and get home with more than 10%. One of those stations has 350 and the other only has 150. Either or, the total time has been between 25 and 30 minutes due to the charging curve of the car.
 
The i4 will only go to 200kW and only at relatively low SOC. Maybe the sticker on the "pump"' said that, but it's not a charge rate to be expected on the i4. See the charge rate curve.
That makes sense (my reading of the manual has been selective). So on a road trip where one might be charging from ~10 to ~90% the 350 unit could save some time - which could add up - but my occasional 20-80% sessions on 350/150 are within a few minutes (if that).
 
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