Renters often don’t have the option of installing a charger at their home.
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I don’t drive my G63 more than 200 miles from my house, or really 50 miles.
I hate driving it on the highway. I take my wife’s Odyssey for road trips lol.
I think these are leasing in the $3000’s currently with who knows how much down, what number would people need to consider it a deal or is everybody all talk lol.
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I’d take one for a g-note.
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I straight up tell our clients not to get an EV if they can’t charge it at home.
That said, even for people like me, who can charge at home, sometimes on a longer trip you’re forced to charge on the road.
Anyone who can charge at home but chooses to wait in line at EA because it’s free must be some kind of masochist, I’m confident.
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I’m as cheap as it gets and I won’t even wait if I can help it.
I’ve always been able to choose some charger other than EA.
YMMV.
Yeah, really depends. There was one trip I made consistently and the only logically placed charging stop was 4 EA and 2 EVgo chargers, the EA there was always a line and generally at least 1 was broken, the EVgo’s were usually broken or also in use, the Tesla stations were always available as there was easily 3x the amount of them.
Tesla’s real value, in my opinion, is their charging network, almost always working, rarely a line at the stations I’ve seen while waiting for EA, and you just generally don’t need to worry.
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What kind of people are those who not only choose to wait in line at EA and then call EA support for 45 minutes that their free charging isn’t working for their 150k Porsche Taycan 4s?
asking for a friend
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This was pretty much the scenario that had me find how i can charge more quickly at home… turns out it was an audi android app issue that didn’t let it load up EA charging but you weren’t allowed to not use the Audi app (get an EA account)… i would literally call the EA help line prior to even arriving to the station .
The EA stations in my part of FL are actually decent but still it’s a minimum hour process unless you leave to charge at odd hours of the day/night. In my about 30 charges in the year, I’ve seen just a handful of higher end vehicles like my RS etron gt… but I’ve also only seen like 3 Etron-GT in the region over 11 months and maybe 7 taycans
I have L2 charging at home and I have used it to charge the RS GT once or twice. Otherwise I park it outside to save wear and tear on my garage door opener and only use EA. RS range is like ~200 miles at 90% on a good day too, not like your big boy 300 mile EQS or whatever, so I’m there once every week lol.
My EA is fairly conveniently located, and the only time when I really had to wait more than 15min was on the day after thanksgiving when every Id.4/Ioniq driver in the tri-state area was trying to get home (so don’t try charging at that time in the future). I bring my microfibre cloth and brushes and give my interior a detail while I’m waiting, or mess around with the car settings, or just scroll twitter/LH for a bit. I try to bring some work related reading material too but honestly it doesn’t take long enough for me to really get any work done.
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Just tag them homie, don’t subtweet @HersheySweet @perdana 
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I wait 5min if I happen to be driving by, not anything more and it makes no sense. Free isn’t worth my time LOL
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And now even egg-shaped car aficionados can charge at Tesla Superchargers with a NACS adapter through the Tesla app – or with Plug and Charge starting next month. Works great with Mercedes’s 400-volt architecture.
IMO free Electrify America charging plans have made a really poor impression of public charging on new EV drivers.
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Just received an email from Mercedes that they are about to get access to the Tesla charging network and they are offering a $185 charging adapter. So charging should get much easier for Mercedes EVs.
I hear that if you tell the Tesla app that you own, say, an F-150 Lightning, it will charge a Mercedes-EQ vehicle just fine.
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This didn’t work for me, trying to charge a BMW saying it was a Ford, but this was back when Ford was first permitted. Maybe I should try again.
The underlying problem here is availability of the NACS adapter. Most OEMs are months behind on delivering. Ford, who gave it away for free at first, is over a year behind. All three adapters I’ve sourced have come from private sales on forums. Very curious if my Ford adapter will work w/ the EQS.
Wild, the Sunoco station has never cared what make I’m driving. Sounds awesome though best of luck!
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Lease or purchase? My wife’s arrives this week and leaning towards leasing.
Gotta find dates somewhere.
At a charging station they have them trapped for at least 20-30 mins.
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