DC Fast Charging Station question?

[milepost1]

All BEV's are affected by same things. kW of charger, SOC, and battery temp. are the biggest effects. Tesla still has the advantage in better pre-conditioning of battery before charging, super charger reliability, location and being able to use most charging networks. I believe price is lower for supercharger network than others. The super charger negatives are share a post and some have lines waiting to charge. Tesla will always have "more" locations as they will have super chargers as well as other networks. in time as more fast chargers come on line, this will be less and less of an advantage. Ford can fix the per-conditioning issue with OTA, the reliability of fast charging should improve and hopefully locations will also. Hopefully all 3 fixed SOON

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[mixduptransistor]

Aren't Tesla Superchargers sharing power and the more Tesla are at the charger the longer it takes? Where EA chargers are dedicated so you get 100% of the power?

At V1/V2 superchargers (150kW) two posts share a single cabinet, so you are only ever sharing with at most one other car, not every car there

The urban (75kw) and V3 superchargers do not share cabinets at all

 

[quitepossibly]

All BEV's are affected by same things. kW of charger, SOC, and battery temp. are the biggest effects. Tesla still has the advantage in better pre-conditioning of battery before charging, super charger reliability, location and being able to use most charging networks. I believe price is lower for supercharger network than others. The super charger negatives are share a post and some have lines waiting to charge. Tesla will always have "more" locations as they will have super chargers as well as other networks. in time as more fast chargers come on line, this will be less and less of an advantage. Ford can fix the per-conditioning issue with OTA, the reliability of fast charging should improve and hopefully locations will also. Hopefully all 3 fixed SOON

Tesla requires pre-conditioning of the battery before charging if you want the fastest speeds, but it looks like the VW ID. 4 and the Audi e-tron don't. It really just depends on the design of the car.

I have a Tesla Model 3 and an Audi e-tron and the e-tron actually charges faster than the Model 3. The e-tron can go 0-80% at 150 kW continuous, without any pre-conditioning at all. Of course, the e-tron is so inefficient that it absolutely guzzles electrons, so it is a good thing it can drink them down that fast.

 

[milepost1]

numbers not necessarily all their is. Location, Location, Location

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