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2800Miles/4450KM EV Road Trip with only Electrify America. Does it work?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2023
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Most of the EVs today come with complimentary free charging with Electrify America for first few year. I want to know whether Electrify America chargers work. Even later on if you plan to take membership for Electrify America, can you rely on it and what is expected cost for charging.
This is a long 2800 Miles/4450KM EV trip starting from Westford Massachusetts to Tennessee covering 12 states, plus 1 additional state New Hampshire for initial charging before start.
There was a previous video that I shared for 500 Miles road trip. That I was able to manage it easily, link below.
• First EV Road Trip 500...
But since this is a very long trip so we might hit the actual challenges for EV charging in general and specially Electrify America.
I plan to give each charging station some score based on availability of fast chargers and speed. I don't plan to include cost here as most of the chargers cost $0.48 per KW. Some states have cost per min which $0.37 per min.
Please let me know your comments and do like the video, subscribe the channel
Nice to meet you this morning at the EA charging station in Scarborough Maine. I was helping a senior family member with their first EV and first visit to an EA charger. Unit 1 turned out to be out of service. There was another issue but phone rep was nice, helpful.
Yes it was great meeting you today!!!
I hope your free charging gets activated soon. Enjoy the EV experience and do share more experiences!!!
Thanks
Gagan
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Nice to meet you at Blue Sky Drive today, and thanks for sharing your road trip... I must say the last long EV road trip I took in 2021 in our then Mustang Mach E (SR/RWD, 230 mile EPA, actual highway range ~260 miles) was 1100 miles from Boston to Fredonia, NY and found EA chargers in upstate NY were very bad (I was only using EA just for simplicity as we did run out of Ford EA credit before this trip)... Chargers in Waterloo were terrible, with half of them not working (and other half required multiple re-plugs), and Fredonia all of them maxed out at 30kW rate (I understand from talking to other EV owners that 800V cars could charge closer to 60kW rate). I also often take 700 mile round trips to Philadelphia (but usually only stop once each way), and had only slightly better luck with EA... Hence traded my much better handling Taycan 4S for a Tesla Model S Plaid for the power, range, and charging network. This is Bruce, by the way :)
Thanks Bruce. Yup nice meeting you. In my experience, the charging speed has been generally good ~150KW and 1 charger touched 200KW+. Except a few.. May be Electrify America has done some improvements but I agree its not perfect and improvement is required.. states with charging cost per min was not showing good speed.
@@EVROADIES I hope it is that things have improved but it also may just be that upstate NY EA chargers are a lot worse... Have you tried EA at the Burlington Mall? Usually only 2 of those chargers are working, and I've never seen more than 80kW rate on either my Mach E (capable of 130kW rate) or Taycan 4S (capable of 230kW rate) at either of those... Also another note, you seem to make more stops than I do, often pretty early in your trip, which may reduce total charging time and reduce stress of getting close to running out of charge. But I usually take long trips with family and small dogs, so any unneeded stops add too much chaos to the trip.
May be there is some improvement. Burlington, I agree is not a good one 😀 They are working on and off. Speed was ok though. Biggest problem is wait time. I have seen if i start the car charging at 15-30% battery then I get a very good speed. It starts slowing down after 70%
nice content, good video ! Greetings from Germany. In europe we got much chargers over 150-350+ i follow
Thanks for the feedback. I am glad that my content helped someone from Germany too. Stay tuned for more !
I've been really surprised that there are so few EA charging stations in the Washington, DC area. In Washington itself, the EA map only shows one station. From the locations in VA and MD, if you live in Washington -- and can't charge at home -- EA does not make owning an EV a convenient experience. Of course, I am only looking at EA since it is supposed to have the most stations. Nice video.
First of all thanks for the comment.
EA has a lot more chargers in Washington DC area. If you check on the google maps, you will see a lot more.
Plug share app is showing me, the chargers on my way which are maximum 5 miles from my route. Also, I have applied a filter for 200kw+ charging speed which means all the chargers with maximum 150kw capacity are also filtered out.
Why did you have to pay to charge? My EQS came with two years of free 30 minute charging sessions at EA.
No I didn’t have to pay.. amount shown is just to give an idea about the cost .. the charging station shows the amount and then gives a discount at the end end…