The newest EV charging stations basically everything Electrify America promised.
On a recent road trip, I stopped in San Antonio for some juice. The Electrify America station I stopped at had recently been down for some upgrades, and it now has the company’s newest station design up and running. You can
Instead of having two relatively short charging cables to reach different sides of a car, the new stations have one long, long cable. You can see it in the above photo connecting to the driver’s side CCS port on my Chevy Bolt EUV with plenty of slack. It wasn’t hard at all to get the thing plugged in, and it puts a lot less stress on the port.
This feature alone makes the new Electrify America stalls infinitely easier to use and more useful than its older stations.At older stations, each stall has a maximum power output. These are usually 50 kW, 150 kW, and 350 kW. The 50 kW stations are usually a lone CCS/CHAdeMO stall, but sometimes those are good for up to 150 kW, too.
This not only helps every driver get the most power possible to get on their way faster, but it makes choosing a stall a lot easier. I’m a nice person, so I try to park my 55 kW EUV in the slowest stall I can to leave room for faster vehicles. If I were to park in a 350 kW space at an older EA station, someone pulling up in a Taycan might have to settle for 150 kW, for example. That would be stupid and unfair.
But, the bad news is that they aren’t going to put in a new station with the long cord and the nicer power sharing gear in for you. The CHAdeMO stall at every site I’ve heard of and at the one I tried in California will keep older station hardware. If you’ve got a LEAF with the plug in the nose of the car, that’s not a big deal as far as plugging in goes, but the reliability of older stations isn’t as good as the reliability of the newer ones.
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