voxel
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- Nelson
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It depends where you are. In Florida, the turnpike is well serviced by local utilities where EA is non-existent and now along I-95 the util companies are building out chargers where as EA has built almost nothing in years.Not me. EA is still our #1 choice on road trips by a wide margin. We know what power levels every station is gonna have, what their pricing will be, that P&C is compatible, that there will be at least 4 chargers at every station, etc. With all those other ad hoc chargers, any or all of that can be different. Relying on just 1 or 2 chargers at a location is a risky proposition unless there's other options in the area. Especially as the # of CCS EVs doubles, then doubles again...
I know your point was about charger dependability, and it's true, EA is often slow to make repairs. But that's also true for many of the others. Hit and miss.
We occasionally use non-EA DCFCs on road trips too, but only ones I've done the research on first. At least 80% of our DCFC is using EA.
Before I attended a track night at Daytona I popped by EA Ormond and 3/6 stalls were down and two were occupied. I just wanted to burn my free credits (yes P&C is nice too) because there were 12 stations (6 FPL Evolution and 6 EVGo) next to the race track that were operational (didn't check exactly how many).
My experience with Tesla Superchargers in Florida is they always work and I've seen one broken one out of maybe hundreds. Private corporations have a vested interest in keeping chargers operational. A "non-profit" like EA doesn't care. Their mandate is to build chargers not maintain them.
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