This article is part of a multi-part series. You can find Part 1 here. In Part 1, I covered home charging installation, which went well despite me requesting something unusual. Now, I'm going to cover
In Part 1, I covered home charging installation, which went well despite me requesting something unusual. Now, I’m going to cover the other side of the charging coin by telling the tale of a road trip across Texas, which mostly relied on DC fast charging.Before I go further, I want to explain something about DC fast charging sessions. Whether the speed of an EV’s charging is satisfactory can’t really be expressed with a number.
So, a consistent 50-55 kW charging rate, over and over, is actually quite nice for me, even if it’s far slower than a Tesla or other vehicles that charge over 100 kW.I’m not the first person to cross Texas in a Bolt, and probably not the first person to do it in a slightly less efficient Bolt EUV. You can find many accounts online of people doing road trips in Bolts, so I won’t try to share things like “I spent 55 minutes and 37 seconds at the Van Horn station.
Good trip planners allow you to set Level 2 charging stops at hotels and then see a detailed itinerary of the charging stops and times. This allows you to set a realistic start time in the morning and know how far into the trip you should be looking for a hotel if you want to get there at a reasonable time. This allows you to not only make a plan for an EV you already own, but allows you to see how an EV would do before buying one.
If you stop at hotels without charging, you miss out on the opportunity to eliminate a Level 3 charging stop. For the fastest charging EVs, you’re not saving a lot of time, but for something like a Bolt, you’re eliminating about 45 minutes and making it happen while you sleep. Then, consider that you wake up to a 100% charge if you do Level 2 at night. That top 20% is much slower charging in any EV, even the fastest ones, so that’s another 30-60 minutes of time savings.
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