• Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They’ll be out-pacing the collective NEVI deployment for a while.

    I disagree. They’ve added 21 in the past year in the US, so let’s call it 2 per month on average for 2023. The plan for several states I’m interested in will outpace that immediately. I don’t know where you got 1.5 sites per day, but that’s absolutely not the case in any way. It’s not even 1.5 stalls per day, instead it’s 0.624 stalls per day. Can you tell me where you got that number from, because 1.5 sites per day would be 548 sites per year and with an average of 10 stalls per site they’ve installed this past year that’s 5479 stalls. Back of the envelope math should have sounded wrong to you.

    I seriously doubt this will happen in the next 2-4 years at the clip Tesla has been dropping chargers.

    Again, your Tesla number is extremely wrong. You should go back to the supercharge.info site, go to the changes list, and switch to “add”. Lots of Tesla sites have been in planning and permitting for years, and to be frank until something Tesla says actually exists in the world it’s not worth much.

    Sure but we’re 8-9 months from cars rolling off the assembly line

    Maybe.

    There is no compelling reason.

    There’s a couple I can think of off the top of my head. Can you not?

    greater reliability

    You’re comparing to existing EA chargers, which we know isn’t the real comparison at hand here.

    Realistically, most people just don’t care about the CCS/NACS debate.

    Right, which is why I specifically didn’t have it. So let’s not start it, because there’s no debate to be had. One is superior to the other, and it isn’t NACS. That’s entirely separate from the conversation being had right now.

    claim CCS was the reason everything was bad

    Nope. Charger reliability has nothing to do with the connector, stop here. Do not pass go. It was the chargers, not the connectors. The connector decision was one of convenience because Tesla has a reliable network when used with a Tesla.

    What I’m suggesting here is that companies are prepared to use the NACS connector, as published by SAE. They announced this because Tesla’s network exists now and we didn’t know what was going to happen with NEVI funds. Now most of those funds have been allocated (if not all?), and since all of those sites are going to get Combo 1 connectors as well as NACS, it’s conceivable to me that they announced NACS to hype things up for a while, and the option to pull out is always there. They have zero requirement to use NACS on either chargers or vehicles, they simply may choose to. There’s been quite a swing in perception of supporting a certain CEO in the past 6 months that might not be as appealing to a lot of people, so it may not be the selling point it would have.

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        11 months ago

        Where do you see they only added 21 in the past year?

        I told you exactly how to find it on the supercharge.info site in my previous post.

        Slide 6 tips your hand, so thank you for commenting about this. You just posted the GLOBAL number, not the US number. NACS is US only, NEVI funds are US only. Pretty important detail, that one.

        Tyson’s corner has been in planning stages since those shitty 208v destination chargers were installed, so I’m glad they finally did something. Is it actually open now? Took them long enough on that one.