Preconditioning is *very* important to achieving fast charge rates, especially at lower SOCs. Giving your car at least 15-20 minutes to warm up is the second most important part of achieving high KW, the most important being low state of charge. Also if that's a Polestar 2 your vehicle can't even get close to accepting 500A.
Which EV do you have? The Polestar 2? What is its AMP limit? Why is it asking for only 205A? That's not even touching the 350 previous limit. That's on your EV not asking for the right amount of power, not the charger. For an 400v EV to request AMP's close to 500A (or go above 350A) is one that gets close to 200kw top speeds (or at the very minimum 170kw). Those that reach maximum speeds of around 150kw rarely, if ever, go past 350A. The whole point of Tesla upping the AMP's to 500 is for those faster charging 400v EVs that use higher AMP's to reach charging speeds close to or above 200kw like the Rivians for example, who reach around 220kw top speeds. Or even the Lightning which reaches around 175kw.
This version of the Polestar 2 at best pulls a touch above 350amps. It is likely his battery is not warm enough to even receive 350amps. All magic dock sites are 500 amps now if your car can take 500amps and the battery is warm enough.
@@theaverageev Yep. Upping the AMP's to 500 on Magic Docks is not going to help your Polestar 2. Has Polestar made a deal with Tesla yet? If so, at least you're going to have a far more reliable charging network once they get access to the Supercharger network and their 99.96% reliability rate.
Preconditioning is *very* important to achieving fast charge rates, especially at lower SOCs. Giving your car at least 15-20 minutes to warm up is the second most important part of achieving high KW, the most important being low state of charge. Also if that's a Polestar 2 your vehicle can't even get close to accepting 500A.
Which EV do you have? The Polestar 2? What is its AMP limit? Why is it asking for only 205A? That's not even touching the 350 previous limit. That's on your EV not asking for the right amount of power, not the charger.
For an 400v EV to request AMP's close to 500A (or go above 350A) is one that gets close to 200kw top speeds (or at the very minimum 170kw). Those that reach maximum speeds of around 150kw rarely, if ever, go past 350A.
The whole point of Tesla upping the AMP's to 500 is for those faster charging 400v EVs that use higher AMP's to reach charging speeds close to or above 200kw like the Rivians for example, who reach around 220kw top speeds. Or even the Lightning which reaches around 175kw.
This version of the Polestar 2 at best pulls a touch above 350amps. It is likely his battery is not warm enough to even receive 350amps. All magic dock sites are 500 amps now if your car can take 500amps and the battery is warm enough.
@@theaverageev Yep. Upping the AMP's to 500 on Magic Docks is not going to help your Polestar 2.
Has Polestar made a deal with Tesla yet? If so, at least you're going to have a far more reliable charging network once they get access to the Supercharger network and their 99.96% reliability rate.