For DC Fast Charging.....any CCS unit should work. Most are Electrify America brand but there are others as well.
The only DCFC connectors we can't use are Tesla Superchargers (maybe in the future). All other (US/CA) DCFC uses the universal CCS plug that everyone but Teslas have (there's a few CHAdeMO's still around but they're all getting phased out).
@Mach-E VLOG and @Liv have done some trips where they got back to their car and found it at like 81-83%. Definitely would be useful to have come back with it at 90%!
Yeah! I'm super excited to get this update and test it out! Whenever we went over 80, it was typically because we were still busy on our stop and it managed to squeeze in a little more slow charge but if those extra minutes were all it took to get to 90%, that would be epic!
EA is the defacto because they only have "really fast" chargers (>=150kw), support the "plug-n-charge" standard, integrate with your Fordpass account, and are deployed on major routes virtually nationwide. As mentioned by others there are a handful of networks around, but often those chargers are only 50kw or less and several of the networks require a special account.
Lots of different situations for people. In our case, we're retired and like to travel. We normally fly all over the world but flying sucks ? right now so we're delaying big international trips and doing road trips around the West instead. Put nearly 6000 road trip miles on the Mach-E this year, with another trip already planned.
Generally speaking, if you start and end your day at home then you may never have any need for DCFC which is pretty much the ideal scenario and you and your car may be happy.
This makes absolute sense to what I was thinking regarding people complaining about the shift knob that never stops turning. If you notice, the headlight knob is the same way. It seems to me this was absolutely a design of OTA and software configurable settings.
There's different rates for each state, and for your membership level. You can pay monthly to get a discounted rate. Perhaps the Taycan has a Pass+ membership for lower rates.I fast charged at EA once last week and once this week. Seeing the many videos showing people with issues, I fully expected to have much fiddling to do. Nope. Both times I plugged in at ~35% and it started doing its thing. Sometimes it's good to have a low expectation lol. Both times took about 23 minutes to reach 80%. The crazy thing is, in NJ EA charges $0.43 per kWh which would've been $15. In PA EA charges $0.32 per minute which was half the cost for the same 33kWh delivered. At $0.43 per kWh, it far exceeds what gas would've cost for the same number of miles driven.
There was a Taycan next to me the first time. I took a pic of their screen. Why does the Taycan have a lower rate? As you can see on the screen, he added 56kWh at $18.60, or $0.33 per kWh. He was still going at 35kW at 91%. It went up to 94% within a few minutes by the time I took at photo.
