r/ChargerDrama

Found a Level 2 EV charger in Winnipeg charging $30 CAD per hour.

The station says max output is 16.6 kW, so that works out to about $1.81/kWh but my car would likely pull around 11.5 kW on Level 2, which makes it closer to $2.61/kWh

Tesla Supercharger PSA

Today at a SuperCharger site I noticed something interesting. The site has both V3 and V4 posts. I chose the V4 post as I can park and not take up more than 1 space. While charging another Lightning rolls up and takes up 2 spaces at the V3 posts. This site has 28 posts, over 2/3 of which are V4 posts. To me the only reason the other Lightning driver chose the V3 is because they didn’t know the difference.

So PSA for all non-Tesla EV drivers. If you see a newer black and white V4 SuperCharger post, it has a much longer cable than the older style red and white Supercharger posts.

That is all. 🫡

I’ll admit, this was my very first time charging on a public charger. So this is likely beginner’s error.

I just got my first EV (Ioniq 5) about a month ago and normally charge at home, but my driveway is currently being worked on and I was near a public charger on an errand and thought I’d “practice” since I’d never done it before.

With Hyundai Pay it was pretty seamless. I plugged in, tapped “pay now” in the car, and charging started. But the price wasn’t listed anywhere. I figured it would be a ~$15 experiment and ate some lunch while it charged.

It charged WAY faster than I thought it would. I couldn’t finish my lunch in time (great problem to have), but the final total was $27, and I only went from 48% to 92% (I originally was only going to go to 80% but it happened way too fast and decided to extend so I could get my food to-go and pay).

Is it typical that the price isn’t advertised? And is it usually this much? I have solar at home so charging is effectively free, but even paying full rate, it would be ~$15 to fully charge.

Still cheaper than current gas prices, but damn.

Looks like Tesla drivers are similar the world over. 3 parked in the 4 available stalls. Not 1 charging. Just their own privileged parking space? (Plenty of nearby free parking btw.)

(We have the Cupra, and I know it forces us to use the wrong charger.)

Hotel had a single L2 Chargepoint station with two connections. Went to bed with both spots open, thinking I'll have the opportunity to charge for a few hours in the morning and skip a DCFC session. Signs in each spot "CHARGING STATION Parking Only While Charging." Plenty of other open spots around too.

Let them a note that hopefully made them reflect on being terrible, insensitive, entitled human beings.

There are three GM/EVGO chargers with dual side ports. I am at the first and the middle one doesn’t work. He comes in and parks right in front of the only other working charger to go into the store. Mind you, this is a truck stop and there’s plenty of parking for large trucks but he couldn’t be considerate enough to park somewhere else.

Shortly after he parked and went inside another EV pulled up to the middle charger, which doesn’t work. They had to move and wait the 20 minutes for him to come out of the store so that they could charge at the other charger. FFS 🤦🏾‍♂️

Beside a Publix. Plenty of spaces, especially right out front of Publix. It must be intentional. Baffled by what must go on in their heads. Oakwood Georgia. (No signs saying it’s shared parking btw)

More a holes blocking hotel charging where people like myself need to charge overnight to continue their road trip. Every charger sign needs to say subject to towing. Worse part is that one of them was an EV that wasn’t charging. Man I hate inconsiderate people.

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Not even handicapped or an EV.

Odd to see Subarus do this. It’s usually a jacked truck. 3 of 8 were ICEd ..