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DCFC are not used for daily charging by anyone in Norway, or for that matter by pretty much anyone that factors into any of the studies in any large numbers. This is true for pretty much everywhere EVs are in use. The only people that do this are gas station mentality people, or people that...

I got the Kia Soul EV which came without Homelink. I bought an aftermarket mirror that came with Homelink and installed it. Took me about an hour to do the replacement. I am sure an aftermarket for the F150 would be easy to find.

Yes, there are a lot of DCFC’s in Norway. For long road trips. The fact of the matter is that 82% of people in Norway charge at home. 12% charge at L2 chargers in city/public parking spots. The people who live in apartments without L2/L1 chargers don’t charge on L3 chargers alone enough to even...

You can get dual chargers that operate off of the same breaker, obviously they have lower output when both are being used. But you wouldn’t be able to use the whole house backup from Ford.

Oh, to be sure that is the case. Still, I was charging my EV on a 15 Amp 120v plug before I got the more powerful EVSE installed, and it still was able to fully recover the charge overnight. I did this for over a year. Most people drive less than 30 miles per day - but think that they drive...

The DCFC is still an old school mentality as the video points out. It’s the gas station mentality, and that is going away. More and more L2 chargers will appear as the adoption rates of EVs increase. Currently, they are less than 3% of total sales in the US. So they are uncommon. Furthermore...

Do you need the Ford charger? I have a 30 amp breaker, and I have one of these on it: https://store.clippercreek.com/lcs-25-20-amp-ev-charging-station It works great.

It’s been proven in the UK that to convert streetlights to chargers and lights is very effective for EV use: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/analysis/1300-street-lights-converted-ev-chargers-london?a=JMA06&t[0]=Siemens&t[1]=Ubitricity&t[2]=electric vehicle&t[3]=charging...

Just move to ‘Murica like I did.

So, my Kia Soul EV+ (which currently has a bad battery) would get, when the battery was healthy, about 70 miles of range at the very worst, when in winter and highway driving. Normally it is 90-110 miles. I don’t see why you would have any range issues trying to go about 100 miles with a much...

I think they have improved since I last looked, IIRC the Chevy Volt could take 4 hours to charge the small battery.

I am going to show a little bias here; but I detest Plug-in Hybrids. Mostly because they have very short range, which is fine by itself. But the real issue I have with them is that the onboard chargers are always pretty weak. Those things you think of as chargers on the wall are really EVSE’s...

I think it is designed more for a power outage than as a fixed battery load like a power wall, but I guess we will learn more as it is told to us.

More or less, yes: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17405906/tesla-model-3-hypermilling-driving-record

I saw an early video where they showed what the hardware would look like; There is the EVSE (charger) and a big wall box that is the inverter. So, it looks like it needs the big wall box to reverse the charge. The presenter pointed out that the majority of the power comes out from the two DC...

Given that most people drive less than 30 miles a day, it clearly is not needed. It is a nice to have. It fills in a need of the perception that people drive further than they actually do.

Thats really hard to say, but based on tests from other EVs that have performed towing, you get roughly 1/3 of your rated range. That is, if your normal range is 300 miles, you get only 100 while towing.

They started building the fast charging network after building the cars. But the government is doing it because they want to encourage adoption of EVs because of the perceived need for DCFC, which, as we have established with an average of 29.5 miles of driving per day, isn’t a requirement. To...

Which is exactly what I said. It’s burning capital, but in a smart way.

Most people in the US drive an average of 29.5 miles per day; which is well within the realm of an L2 charger, or even an L1. There are obviously exceptions to this. I have found that a lot of people that own Tesla’s without home charging own them for the Cachet of having a nice car, and EV...