Electrify America - Experiences and Discussion

[BigNerd]

@LBoston

EA locations are horrible.

Malls and far ends of Walmart parking lots are the worst spot for fast DC charging. Forcing drivers to deal with loads of traffic (malls), navigate parking lots/parking garages, plug in and (if it works as advertised), have 20-30 minutes to what? Shop?

It’s barely enough time to walk across the giant parking lot, pee, and walk back. Then god forbid the charging session fails.

Malls/big box stores where you want to linger are ideal for Level 2 chargers, not Level 3 chargers.

Fast L3 chargers should be at coffee shops, quick-eats shops, with plenty of clean, close restrooms. That’s all that’s needed.

This was from the iX discussion and since we also touched on this topic here I just wanted to bring it in from there.

I agree with the above, and like @IAC said, have both L2 and L3 chargers and incentivize L2 usage.