Seems like a decent option for stationary energy storage then.
DreadPotato
joined 1 year ago
In Europe we've had the CCS2 standard for ages, yet charging at different brands is still a fucking jungle when it comes to pricing. Every company seems to insist that charging your EV should be a subscription service, and if you want to use their chargers without a subscription they screw you over with insane pricing like 1.5€/kWh. This trend of everything "as a service" is the bane of modern existence and should be banned.
The power lines in the cable are disconnected inside the charger by a contactor until communication with the car is confirmed established with a handshake, and then it connects power to the cable. If the communication with the car drops at any point, the contactor disconnects the power to the cable. It requires both effort and knowledge to bypass this design, it basically can't happen accidentally.
Also, the cables you mention are that large, because they're passively cooled, DC car chargers have watercooled cables so they can be much thinner without overheating. And at 4kV you're looking at significantly different insulation thickness as well, compared to the 400-800V that electric cars use.
That just seems like bad software design with a prompt like that, unless its for audit trail purposes and it's used to log the user is actively accepting to continue.
Yeah so smug...it only stops accepting input from my touchpad if i close the lid on my laptop which puts it in sleep mode.
I mean, I doubt he did any of the designing of the truck at all...he may have pointed at some presented options and selected this one, but that's probably the most "designing" he did...this is the shitty design-work of other people, put on display by him.
My experience is that even places with fast food are not fast enough for EV charging. I pretty much always end up charging more than I actually need, or even move the car because its fully charged, before we're done eating and back at the car.
Right now EVs charge fast enough that you can't do anything meaningful with the time, but too slow for just sitting and waiting.
You're not spending 30+ minutes charging on modern EV's (maybe some cheap crappy ones IDK)...I spent my summer holiday driving around Europe for 3 weeks, and charging stops were always <25min from leaving the highway to back on the highway. The actual charging time was often so short that we barely had time to get the kids to the bathroom and back before the car was ready to drive for another couple of hours. Having them at gas stations in Germany, where there's almost always a decent level of amenities (at least along the highway) is just fine and makes perfect sense.
If someone hides what they're "monitoring", and what theyre doing with it, from you in vague definitions and legalese ToS, it's still spying.
It only annoyed me into stopping using their service
This is mostly just for various online sign ups, they have no valid reason to get my real phone number.