What was their point exactly? At-home charging is about doing it in the “23 hours” and the 24th hour thing applies to ICE vehicles too. Are they saying to not do public charging if you can? If so, I agree - at home charging is the way to go.
When I add up the 5 minutes I spent a week filling up my diesel I get over 4/hours a year. I’ve not used a public charger for months. I’ll probably save time this year. Plug in at night, unplug in the morning.
We also had a two week period of sun-zero temperatures with my neighbours standing and scraping their windscreen and windows. My car was automatically pre-heated and defrosted on a schedule. More time saved.
If you do lots of long journeys I could definitely see public charging being an issue, especially for non-Teslas. We need lots more fast chargers but in my country they seem hell-bent in building lots of slow ones.
His point was that pushing more work into the few busy per cent of time is making things unnecessarily difficult. He was talking about fast charging, which is needed if you want to charge during the 5% of the time when you're in a hurry, see?
I see. Depends very much on the usage pattern. Since all my charging is done at home the thought of standing in a forecourt in winter weather just to spend 4x as much isn’t something I’d rush back to. But if I did more than 200 miles per day the thought of trying to use public chargers would change that.
If you did 200miles per day, that sounds like you'd be a professional, and in that case, I suspect that your employer would try to have the charging done during your mandatory rest time. The charging would need to be finished before the rest time ends. Fast enough, not fast.
It’s only a few seconds (maybe 7?) and it’s done by the time my son is in/out of his car seat so it’s not really extra time. Just like charging on a long trip - if you’re eating etc it’s not really extra.
When I add up the 5 minutes I spent a week filling up my diesel I get over 4/hours a year. I’ve not used a public charger for months. I’ll probably save time this year. Plug in at night, unplug in the morning.
We also had a two week period of sun-zero temperatures with my neighbours standing and scraping their windscreen and windows. My car was automatically pre-heated and defrosted on a schedule. More time saved.
If you do lots of long journeys I could definitely see public charging being an issue, especially for non-Teslas. We need lots more fast chargers but in my country they seem hell-bent in building lots of slow ones.