If you do, you are wasting your time and the time of anytime else waiting for that charger. I’m currently sitting waiting at a DC Fast charger for 30 minutes because some guy in an ID.4 has decided to charge to 100%.

It is nearly always better to charge to 70% or 80% and stop more often. Stop fucking it up for everyone. If you don’t know, the charge rate slows down dramatically the higher the state of charge. I could have charged from 20-80 in the time this guy went from 80-100

  • nkfgqwcseaji@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I posted this in another thread with a similar topic:

    I just did a 3000 mile cross country trip in my ID4 and there was one scenario where I had to charge to ~95% while another person was waiting. Was it a dick move? Maybe, but I know I needed those extra miles because that’s what my ABRP (subscription plus obd) was telling me I needed.

    I won’t risk my family getting stranded and wasting hours waiting for a tow just to come off as more polite. Unfortunately the ID4 was my only option for this trip as it is our only car. And we were moving.

    Everyone’s situation is different. I was initially annoyed with people using the dc fast chargers in the same state as their license plate. I thought “don’t you people have chargers at home?!”, but that’s a toxic mindset to have and quickly readjusted my thoughts because they could be in an apartment that doesn’t allow installation for example.