EVSE availability varies greatly with area of the country. I use public EVSE's regularly and in the last few years have only had one time when one was not available, and it was marked as unavailable due to construction on the Chargepoint website. I replaced my PFC20 this year with an EMW 10kW charger and did more trips further from home as a result. I can add about 30 - 35 miles per hour charge at a 240V EVSE (my car only uses about 1/5 kWh/mile on average). Still not as convenient as an ice powered car of course, but enables me to drive a bit over 100 miles round trip stopping for a 1 hour charge. I can charge at up to 50 miles per hour from a NEMA 14-50 outlet at home or an RV park. That put quite a few more hiking and biking areas within my range. I usually leave the car parked at an EVSE while I bike and leave a note that it is ok to unplug after such and such time, typically less than 2 hours from when I plug in. I also charge on the way to my destination while I walk to a cafe and have breakfast, or charge on my way home while I walk to a restaurant and have dinner. I do prefer sites that have 2 to 4 stations in case one is in use, and that will have to increase as the number of ev's does - already an issue in some areas in CA it seems.
Charging at home at night is more than sufficient for around town use. If that is my only use I only need to charge every second to fourth day typically (75 mile range on full charge). I agree most people think they drive much further than they do. Many times people react with surprise when I tell them the car has about 75 mile range, and I can easily drive to such and such town and back without stopping to charge. The town is a bit under 30 miles away. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-Menacing-Copper-Theives-A-Cut-Steal-EVSEScourge-tp4671354p4671418.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
