Flying ace
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- Mike
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There are so many factors involved in charging speeds, but today, typically it's still the charging unit's ability to dispense at the highest speeds consistently.
I'm unsure the conditions the station will throttle itself, but it makes sense on a heavily used station that the units may overheat after repeated nonstop charging sessions, though the turnover time gives the units at least 5 mins to cool down. However, this goes against some of my observations with my own car, most of the times I've experienced the max charging speeds, they were at stations with the heaviest use. And the only two times I got less than ideal speeds (120 kw average), they were at low volume stations. After my initial delivery roadtrip, I've only used DCFC once near my home.
I'm unsure the conditions the station will throttle itself, but it makes sense on a heavily used station that the units may overheat after repeated nonstop charging sessions, though the turnover time gives the units at least 5 mins to cool down. However, this goes against some of my observations with my own car, most of the times I've experienced the max charging speeds, they were at stations with the heaviest use. And the only two times I got less than ideal speeds (120 kw average), they were at low volume stations. After my initial delivery roadtrip, I've only used DCFC once near my home.
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