I guess I should have included CCS as good. You can now make a trek North on the 5 to get to Oregon. However while you pointed out L3 stations they are all CCS. I can't use that with my Leaf. I'm not venting just pointing out. As well there is a CCS gap from Stockton CA to LA on the 5 for CCS. However there are 3 main paths to LA from N. California. Two out of three are good for each standard. It just takes some planning on Plugshare and realizing L3 is not a good way of looking at it. You must segregate each standard so you don't show up at a L3 with a Bolt and see a Tesla station....oops. I do know how to use Plugshare and when I request Chademo it gives the right results. That is how I found the gap in N. California. You can do the trip on Chademo. You just have to find an L2 and suffer a 3hour addition to your travel time. That is what we did coming North on the 101 from LA to San Francisco. If you drive Chademo you must stay in King City for a few hours. As of today You can not make a trip on the 5 from San Diego to Oregon in either standard. CCS must use 99. Chademo has the gap near Weed, CA where a 3 hour stay must be made. There is no alternative route. What I think should happen is Govt. involvement. It should be required that all fast charge stations have equipment or allow equipment that allows any fast charge standard to be utilized. I would love to use the Supercharger system with my Leaf. That would mean I could go cross country with my Leaf today...However with the reduced charging speed of 40kw not sure I'd want to go cross country with that slow standard. I will probably buy a Tesla 3 with 140kw charging speed. It's not the range...it is the charging time that makes EV's slow. If you could charge in 10 minutes even an 84 mile Leaf would be acceptable to every car driver. Lawrence Rhodes
From: brucedp5 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] L3 EVSE: Chademo still lagging behind on the west coast electric Hwy I-5 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lawrence, a couple of points: other than letting you feel good venting on the evdl to fellow EV'rs (and providing some interesting detail on your EV route/experiences), we can't do much about correcting the too far away gaps between public L3 EVSE. I have vented in the past but always let the powers that be also know. I suggest (if you haven't already) shoot these lack of infrastructure concerns to those that can act on them. VW is still touting how great are their efforts to install EVSE https://www.electrifyamerica.com/our-plan Over a ten year period ending in 2027, Electrify America will invest $2 billion in Zero ... charging network -- to drive EV adoption by reducing charging anxiety ... ... https://www.google.com/search?q=volkswagen+charging VW wouldn't be making such an effort if it were for the efforts of many (including sierra club) to sue/hold vw responsible for their dieselgate https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2017/11/all-50-states-apply-for-vw-settlement-funds-ahead-schedule So, I would let both sierra club and their buddies at plug in america know of the charging discrepancies. 2nd point: I think you and I are using plugshare differently, giving different results. You mentioned Mt. Shasta, but sometimes Lake Shasta is transposed in the word use. If I understand correctly, you are EV touring/trekking north on I-5 from Sacramento aiming for just south of Medford, OR. I came up with L3 CHAdeMO points to get you there and back (map) https://goo.gl/maps/wLYRweUf9Es https://www.plugshare.com/location/81743 2256 Solano St, Corning, CA 96021 https://www.plugshare.com/location/73333 833 E Cypress Ave, Redding, CA 96002 https://www.plugshare.com/location/81745 4314 Pioneer Way, Dunsmuir, CA 96025 https://www.plugshare.com/location/75901 1868 Fort Jones Rd, Yreka, CA 96097 https://www.plugshare.com/location/6542 2371 Ashland St, Ashland, OR 97520 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180730/a927c28d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
