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At the Moab Supercharger on Sunday:
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Sure. The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average or a maximum of 10 fills/hour x 3 = 30 fills/hour, forDaveinOlyWA said:perfect example of creating an alternate reality from "facts"GRA said:End of February summary. Just two U.S. SCs (Slidell, LA; Beatty, NV) commissioned this month, which I think is the lowest monthly total since 2013 or maybe even 2012. In fact, while something of a fluke, California opened more H2 stations (3) in February than Tesla did SCs in the U.S.
how about numbers on possible thru put comparing the two SC's and the 3 H stations instead?
GRA said:The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average
I took my first supercharger enabled trip just over a week ago. Stopped twice on the way to our destination. Built-in trip planner tells you how long you need to stay at the supercharger with some buffer (15%-20%) to get to the next one.GRA said:Sure. The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average or a maximum of 10 fills/hour x 3 = 30 fills/hour, for ...
lorenfb said:GRA said:The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average
That's the key point which limits the adoption rate of BEVs in the long term, which most seem to ignore!
lorenfb said:GRA said:The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average
That's the key point which limits the adoption rate of BEVs in the long term, which most seem to ignore!
In the U.S., which has the highest % (56%) of households living in detached single family homes with available, dedicated parking with electricity for charging, that's true. But for the 44% here (including me) who don't have that option, plus the far higher proportion who can't do so in the rest of the world including those countries (China etc.) which will see the largest increase in car ownership/usage over the next decades, divorcing fueling from living/working locations isn't an inconvenience, it's an advantage, when that fueling is rapid. That will be the case until such time as public/private charging infrastructure is ubiquitous, and equal or lower cost than fossil fuels (H2 and all other alternative fuels must also meet those requirements to succeed). As you say, having options is good.Zythryn said:Ignore? No.lorenfb said:GRA said:The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average
That's the key point which limits the adoption rate of BEVs in the long term, which most seem to ignore!
Dismiss after examination? Yes.
Most realize that waking up with a full 'tank' every day is a huge convenience and one that wins out for anyone with a reliable place to charge (either at home or work).
However, not everyone has such a place, so other options are good.
The number of people a 200 mile BEV doesn't work for is a lot lower than many seem to think.
I'm not sure how you're reading the numbers to arrive at your conclusion, as they show just the opposite, except in the worst case for the Tucson (3,180), and the medium (3,360) and best (3,840) cases for the BEV. Care to elaborate on your methodology?GetOffYourGas said:So according to GRA's numbers, the Hydrogen stations still cannot support as many hydrogen-power miles as the Superchargers.
As we all know, the Superchargers only have to support part of the "load" of charging EVs. I'm going to guess it's typically 10-15% from what I've read. But even assuming it is much higher, at 25%, the EVs supported by the Superchargers can travel 4x the number of miles as indicated by your calculations. So even though the Superchargers have less throughput in terms of miles/hr worth of energy dispensed, the EVs they support can travel many more miles/day than the FCVs supported by the hydrogen stations.
Glad it works for you. For me, I don't stop every two hours on a road trip (and I sure as hell don't need to be loading up on sugary/salty snacks), it's every four or five hours between meals, or when I reach the destination. Nor do most of my destinations have charging available - FTM, most of them (trailheads) entirely lack electricity. Still, I could make a BEV with 2 hour freeway/highway range in all conditions plus a reserve, and with properly placed quick chargers work for many of my weekend trips. Unfortunately, the places I most like to go are the last ones that will see quick chargers.scottf200 said:I took my first supercharger enabled trip just over a week ago. Stopped twice on the way to our destination. Built-in trip planner tells you how long you need to stay at the supercharger with some buffer (15%-20%) to get to the next one.GRA said:Sure. The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average or a maximum of 10 fills/hour x 3 = 30 fills/hour, for ...
1st stop was near restaurants and large grocery store with its associated gas station/convenience store. We use the restrooms and got snacks. Chatted with another owner for 5-10 minutes and then let. Didn't seem much different than my previous ICE trip.
2nd stop was near more restaurants and gas station/convenience store. We ate lunch. By the time we were done we filled up way beyond what we needed to get to our final destination.
Could have charged overnight but there was a supercharger in the area so we ate dinner out. There were several restaurants near the supercharger so we ate at one.
On the way home it was similar trip and seemed just as fast as driving the ICE since we were doing things at the supercharging stops anyway!
Thanks, I've corrected it. I don't know how that '2' got in there, as the smallest SC that Tesla's built has 3 stalls (it was apparently supposed to be '6' originally, but the property owner changed their mind), and I should have noticed the anomaly way back when.muus said:Small correction to GRA's list, there are 6 stalls in Kingston Ontario Canada.
https://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/findus/location/supercharger/kingstononsupercharger
Zythryn said:Most realize that waking up with a full 'tank' every day is a huge convenience and one that wins out for anyone with a reliable place to charge (either at home or work).
However, not everyone has such a place, so other options are good.
lorenfb said:Zythryn said:Most realize that waking up with a full 'tank' every day is a huge convenience and one that wins out for anyone with a reliable place to charge (either at home or work).
However, not everyone has such a place, so other options are good.
Yes, as GRA mentioned, another problem that limits the adoption rate, i.e. a place where one wakes-up and
'finds' a fully charged BEV.
GRA said:I'm not sure how you're reading the numbers to arrive at your conclusion, as they show just the opposite, except in the worst case for the Tucson (3,180), and the medium (3,360) and best (3,840) cases for the BEV. Care to elaborate on your methodology?GetOffYourGas said:So according to GRA's numbers, the Hydrogen stations still cannot support as many hydrogen-power miles as the Superchargers.
As we all know, the Superchargers only have to support part of the "load" of charging EVs. I'm going to guess it's typically 10-15% from what I've read. But even assuming it is much higher, at 25%, the EVs supported by the Superchargers can travel 4x the number of miles as indicated by your calculations. So even though the Superchargers have less throughput in terms of miles/hr worth of energy dispensed, the EVs they support can travel many more miles/day than the FCVs supported by the hydrogen stations.
GetOffYourGas said:Your numbers are only true if you look at road trips, and neglect to charge your EV before leaving home.
GRA said:Glad it works for you. For me, I don't stop every two hours on a road trip (and I sure as hell don't need to be loading up on sugary/salty snacks), it's every four or five hours between meals, or when I reach the destination. Nor do most of my destinations have charging available - FTM, most of them (trailheads) entirely lack electricity. Still, I could make a BEV with 2 hour freeway/highway range in all conditions plus a reserve, and with properly placed quick chargers work for many of my weekend trips. Unfortunately, the places I most like to go are the last ones that will see quick chargers.scottf200 said:I took my first supercharger enabled trip just over a week ago. Stopped twice on the way to our destination. Built-in trip planner tells you how long you need to stay at the supercharger with some buffer (15%-20%) to get to the next one.GRA said:Sure. The 3 H2 stations can do a complete fill in 3-5 minutes, so allowing for some leeway to pull up, connect, pay, disconnect and leave let's call it six minutes average or a maximum of 10 fills/hour x 3 = 30 fills/hour, for ...
1st stop was near restaurants and large grocery store with its associated gas station/convenience store. We use the restrooms and got snacks. Chatted with another owner for 5-10 minutes and then let. Didn't seem much different than my previous ICE trip.
2nd stop was near more restaurants and gas station/convenience store. We ate lunch. By the time we were done we filled up way beyond what we needed to get to our final destination.
Could have charged overnight but there was a supercharger in the area so we ate dinner out. There were several restaurants near the supercharger so we ate at one.
On the way home it was similar trip and seemed just as fast as driving the ICE since we were doing things at the supercharging stops anyway!
We did get some good news recently on TMC, as Tesla is apparently going to put an SC in Groveland, CA en route to Yosemite, a location many of us have been lobbying for over the past two years or so. This will help a lot for those of us going to the high country, but even though Tesla put an SC in Mammoth Lakes, they still need one in Lee Vining to make trips to/from the east side reasonably convenient. Some of us have been lobbying Tesla for years to move up provision of SCs to access major national parks and other outdoor recreational areas, with occasional but still indifferent success so far.
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