NorthEastEV said:
Yeah I've been working from home for nearly three months now too, my EV has been very unoccupied and has been polished more times than in any previous three month period!
However, yours got a wash (or two), mine sits outdoors and collected cobwebs and tree debris...
NorthEastEV said:
The nearest equivalent to that we have here is that at supermarkets there's usually priority parking near the building entrances for Electric vehicles, along with free to use charge points, which is a bonus.
There are more EV chargers going in locally. Retail stores recognize their customers with EV vehicles favo(u)r places that offer charging. EV chargers are usually on a network. So one must have the appropriate account cards (or phone apps) to use them. Prices vary widely, unlike petrol/gas filling stations, where the price is boldly displayed on the street before you pull in. With luck free (for two hours) up to an eye-popping ten dollars per hour. A more reasonable cost is two dollars per hour.
NorthEastEV said:
Sadly they're only 7kW chargers so even if the shopping takes an hour I'm only getting about 10 miles of range out of it :roll: but its free power so that's always welcome.
That's interesting. We have a variety of EV charger capacity, and both AC and DC varieties. Only AC 'L1' or 'L2' will work with the B250e. DC, while much faster can't be used. Newer installations are DC, limiting where I can get public EV charging locally.
L1 is typically 3.8kW, good for ten miles range per one hour charging in the B250e, but L2 can deliver 6.6kW to 7.4kW or 20+ miles in one hour. Some EV charger equipment can connect two vehicles at one station, and often the charge rate is impaired when two vehicles are charging at the same time.
While we're on this topic, the public charger meters are accurate, but the range display in the B250e is not. JeffRay calls it the Guess-O-Meter (GOM) as it estimates range based on driving style (and other electrical demands such as Air Conditioning and winter heating needs)
Peter,
