Your Electrify America Experiences (and Locations)?

[wemct]

Last week I completed another 1000 mile trip in my Taycan driving from Connecticut to Georgia. This is the 7th time I have done the trip since I got the car in April 2020. To date, I have never been stranded at any of the Electrify America chargers. What I have noticed during the past 2 plus years is the following:
- In the beginning (2020/2021), I had to occasionally call EA to have the charger connected or rebooted. On my last two 1000 miles trips, I did not need to call EA.
- The chargers are much more crowded with a mix of different EV makes and models
- Even EVs that can't ingest more than 100kW all flock to the 350kW chargers on the misbelief that the 350kW chargers will speed up charge time vs the 150kW chargers
- More often than not, I can pull more than 150kW from the 150kW chargers (fyi, the 150kW chargers are pretty good and only add about 10 minutes from 10% to 85% SOC)
- the guess-o-meter on the Taycan is pretty accurate and I no longer have range anxiety and regularly arrive at EA locations with single digit SOC remaining
- From Oct 2021 to last week I have charged exclusively at the EA Chargers in Stamford, CT, Stratford, CT and Trumbull, CT (my house in CT does not have a home charger). I exceeded the 30 minute sessions once by 1 minute costing me a total of 33 cents in energy expenses from Oct to July.

During my last trip, I used the EA chargers at:
- Greenville, SC (I couldn't use the 350kW chargers because the cords and parking bump stops didn't align with the Taycan charging port)
- Statesville, NC
- Wake Forest, NC
- Richmond, VA
- Columbia, MD
- Somerdale, NJ

I easily exceeded 3 miles per kW at highway speeds. My car has the 21 inch Mission e rims (see pics from last week's trip)

The massage seats are still one of my favorite options !!

 

[Kayone73]

The majority of my local EA charger banks have all been working fine.

Also Plug and Charge has worked seamlessly on approx 90% of those working chargers but I'll occasionally encounter a charger where the communication between vehicle and charging station doesn't seem to work. I simply switch to the next charger that's open and P&C works no problem, so no general network issue.

I encountered my first broken chargers in months at the local Irvine Spectrum charging bank where a couple different chargers were offline (out of 6) and one of the remaining working chargers, P&C was not working either.

Funny story to add to my earlier reply. After leaving work today I went to charge up my battery at a local bank of EA chargers at a nearby Target store.

On the SAME CHARGER STALL I plugged in plug #1 (because why not) and Plug & Charge failed to initiate. However because I did not feel like re parking the car I plugged in #2 instead and *BOOM* everything worked as it should.

EA is weird...

 

[Avharrisjr]

We travel round trip Seattle to San Francisco about twice per month. EA charging stations all along the I-5 corridor have been generally reliable. Sometimes 1 or 2 out of 8 stations might be offline, but mostly good. EA customer service is superior. We could use higher percentage of 350 kw stations but those are probably coming.

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