1st I'll answer some replies: Willie sez >Did you see any cars charging? < No, for the half hour I was there, no plugins came. All those new L3 EVSE not being used. As I mentioned, as I arrived there was only one tired EVSE tech there for a few minutes who didn't want to talk, as he sat in his SUV-ice running the A/C ad taking more repair calls. There were a fair share of homeless camped out near by, either sleeping it off, or chugging a beer (that part of San Antonio-East is not a place I would want to live at).
I'll assume no L3 users came while I was there because: plugshare.com showed driver complaints= those vw EVSE are unusable. Add to that the location isn'tjust off a major highway (its hard to find). I had to drive over some rough raunchy roads to get there. With only 1 50kW labeled CHAdeMO, like is likely not working and really at 208VAC only puts out 44kW= its not worth any driver's time, when plugshare.com shows other CHAdeMO nearby that is working. IMO, bottom-line: vw just threw $$$$$ at this installation, no effort seems to have been made to satisfy driver's needs (so-much for all of vw's pr of how their efforts are for their E.America to electrify the U.S.). Tom sez > ... the first one on had to finish before the second one would start up ... < I've seen that before in the old days of a blink/ccg dual CHAdeMO L3 EVSE https://www.blinknetwork.com/file/18400/featured2 The E.america EVSE were not blink. Since there weren't two L3 users there, I can't state that does not happen. But I'll assume with $$$$$ vw threw at all these high-power ccs EVSE they likely didn't go cheap as only power one port of 2 at a time. Drivers will just have-to continue using plugshare.com on this site to know when it is up, and how well it works. Now, the 2019 NDEW Austin EVent I attended on 9/14. It was an early morning 2hr drive north on I35 (me doing it safely in the right lane @60mph on a 70mph hwy). I was saddened to see the sunrise as an orange ball (Austin has air pollution). That and as I looked out across the prairie flatland I saw gray air pollution. These were the same sights I saw as a boy in the 1960's of the beginnings of air pollution in the SF-CA bay area. This only gave me more incentive to attend the EVent and let fellow Texans know not to let that happen here (everyone I talked to about it agreed). The EVent was well coordinated as there was a fair selection of EVs (production and a couple of clean, nice looking conversions), pih, e-motorcycles, e-bicycles, e-scooters, and a 1wheel e-board (thingy). I though the gal that made this EVent happen did a pretty good job considering she had been given the task only a few weeks before hand and (like the coordinator that I've been working with for the San Antonio (sa) NDEW EVent 9/21), she had also had all her other regular job duties to also perform (the coordinator's plate was already full when they go the NDEW assignment). They did have 1 media outlet come with their camera crew. But there was next to nil/no public foot traffic at this location. What few public did come were like at every EVent I've been to over the past 30 years. People come right at the end of the show when drivers are packing/buttoning up to leave. Was the EVent worth all my extra effort to attend. Yup. I thought I did pretty well (for an old man pushing a rollator/walker). I wore my Texas ranch hand hat to reduce sunburning (I must have been quite a sight). I'm hoping my presence and the information I passed on of my experiences was helpful those I talked to. It gives me hope that I can continue to help-out at these events for my last years (my personal goal). Now I'm psyching myself up for next Saturday's 9/21 NDEW EVent here in sa https://driveelectricweek.org/event.php?eventid=1766 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
