Yeah, but it shows you exactly what you are looking for, too.

Well, they haven’t shown it to me. They just told me that the manual for the car is wrong.

With a branded Mini evse, of course. My dealer’s service department is fucking clueless about EVs…

According to my mini dealer, using a non-mini evse voids the warranty. I need to get a BBB complaint in…

Federal minimum is 8 years/100k. Some states adopted the California warranty of 10 years/150k. The length of the legally required warranty depends in which state the car was originally sold. Mercedes have been less than clear about their legal obligations to customers.

Double check the warranty. If that doesn’t work, look for a used battery. Do not under any circumstances follow any online battery ‘repair’ advice. She would then own a serious fire hazard.

I’m not. But I waited 40 minutes at a single DCFC as the guy before me ‘needed’ to charge to 100%. His next leg had multiple chargers on it, he just didn’t want to use them.

When I ran the maths as to whether I should buy an EV, I was concerned about it not running far past warranty without needing mucho dinero thrown at it. The maths said that the saving in running costs over the 8 year battery warranty would be somewhere around its purchase cost. Guesses were made about gasoline prices… Buying one was suddenly not a hard decision.

I have NFC how people are coming up with super high costs. Maybe they forget that infrastructure costs are already included in DCFC and grid electricity prices?

Lithium batteries can only charge very slowly if below freezing. Anything over a trickle can damage them. That’s damage that can cause a fire. Is that overly conservative for you?

Different battery chemistries have differing tolerances to cold charging. You cannot just transfer charge parameters between chemistries.

China actually has some pretty tight IP laws. Get a patent over there and you can put ‘thieves’ out of business. Law there is based on intent, which makes things way simpler in court. The issue is that so many Western companies just don’t bother, them act surprised when a Chinese company copied their shit. All they can do after that is play whack-a-mole with importers into covered counties. A patent is just is a license to sue.

A lot of what people hear about China is just plain propaganda. Don’t worry, they do that too.

Hm, I wonder how many people aren’t reading this sub on a Chinese device?

Let’s just pull some numbers and ‘facts’ out of our ass, or worse Facebook. Then we can jump to any conclusion we want.

Real example: Our 4MW electricity supply was nowhere near 7 figures. That’s likely enough for 3+ dozen stalls with load management.

Ask the airport! But these are very likely intended for charging during a trip. I’ve used a similar setup at Atlanta airport long term parking. A row of 20 or so of slow ‘L2’ chargers. They are about 2kW and intended for you to be plugged in while away.

For those wondering why airports have L2 when L1 would do. It makes more electrical sense to have low power 208V L2 charging. 2kW is fine if you are going to be plugged in for days.

Absolutely wrong on California. If you are charging an EV, you can use any spot, disabled or not. They have clarified this.

No, that’s not how it works anywhere that has clarified it. Nowhere has clarified to say you must be disabled to charge there. They have all gone with OR. In the remaining states, confusion reigns. New spaces must have a certain % of disabled access spaces. The charging disabled spaces are intended as ‘only charge here if you need to’.

If on 8g cable, only if summer temps don’t go over 86F.

Likely because summer temps are over 86F.

I’ve been screwed like this. I needed 15 minutes to make my next stop. I had to wait 50 minutes for the guy already at a single vehicle dcfc to try and fail to charge to 100%. After he timed out, he finally let me have it. When I need to hit a high %, I lurk by the charger and would let someone only needing a little to grab some.

I really like my openevse holster https://store.openevse.com/products/j1772-holster-and-cord-hanger

They are correct. It varies by car, but somewhere around 5% more efficient at 11kW