At that point it becomes a nice spot to stretch your legs and grab something quick to bite before you're back on the road again.
I never charge at anything less than 75KW if I am driving long distance. I have 22KW at home for slow charging.
At that point it becomes a nice spot to stretch your legs and grab something quick to bite before you're back on the road again.
I never charge at anything less than 75KW if I am driving long distance. I have 22KW at home for slow charging.
Do you think 7-11 is going to install very fast charging? It's 7-11: where deathdogs rotate forever until someone who doesn't like living buys one.
Affordable EVs these days, for example the ID.3 or ID.4 do 125KW charging, at least up to a certain point. Teslas are not much better. Yes, the Model 3 can charge much faster than this, but only for a short time until it will throttle down significantly.
For this reason though, charging only a little makes even more sense. Bringing your battery from 10% to 50% should be relatively fast no matter which car you have. The last 50% will take much longer.
Once the car throttles down the charging speed, you are probably better off finding another charger an hour or two away - unless you're planning a longer stay.
This is 100% true and, from recent experience, generally a much better way to road trip. Stopping every 150 miles or so breaks up the trip into nice chunks and keeps you fresh.
I took an earlier trip where I had to charge from 10-90% twice due to charger distance and it was much worse.