maybe- but, like not revving your car when cold, there's a mechanical sympathy aspect
Oh so this is going to be a thing too is it? Looking down on people who want to fully charge?
Commercial charging will soon need to have a cost related to duration of charge as well as quantity of energy,
which may be an additional bonus of eg. paying for the higher rate VW charging options.
It's the same etiquette as not leaving your ICE car blocking a fuel pump while you spend 30 minutes in the mini Tesco doing your weekly shop.
No it isn't, as in that scenario you're not using the fuelling infrastructure.
I quite often drive to Wales and will stop at Membury on the way and charge up to 100% whilst stopping for lunch. Whilst I don't need 100% to get to my destination, it gives me loads more wiggle room and allows me to drive around without the need to charge whilst I'm there. If you need the 100%, even if it's only for convenience, then charge away as far as I'm concerned. Charging to 100% shouldn't be frowned upon as you don't know the users needs.The only scenario I can see for charging to 100% on a public fast charger is if you're going somewhere like Lands End with no other chargers available en route where you would use 80% to get there and back so to do the trip and make it back with a bit to spare you need 100% charge to set off.
But you're refuelling so using the service....not just blocking it.But your doing the thing everyone wants to prevent which is blocking someone else from using the fueling infrastructure
But your doing the thing everyone wants to prevent which is blocking someone else from using the fueling infrastructure
It's nothing like this. How about next time you refuel your ICE and there's a queue, you only fill up to half a tank and then move out of the way so other people can refuel quicker? I mean, do you need a full tank each time you stop?It's the same etiquette as not leaving your ICE car blocking a fuel pump while you spend 30 minutes in the mini Tesco doing your weekly shop.
Because you're using it.
It's becoming clear why we need to ban petrol and diesel cars - electric too much of a nuisance to live with outside the enthusiast space...
Now we find that if you charge your car too much you'll upset the other EV owners...
I can see this becoming more of a problem, attitude wise, the more EV adoption increases - the early adopters who have gotten used to having free reign of the under utilised charging network and concocted bizarre 'etiquette rules' within their niche EV enthusiast circles will start to get aggravated with 'average joe' EV users as they increasingly find chargers being used and have to come to terms with the fact there are other people who want to use this infrastructure and want to use it to do what they need as they see fit, not in accordance with the 'etiquette'.
or Buy a Tesla
situation is analagous to broadband bandwidth/mobile phones, you pay more for higher potential bitrate, and total data used.
...even for Tesla bays, if they are all occupied do they have the powergrid to keep everyone at 125/150, or are they over-booking.
No, part of the acknowledged Tesla etiquette is you don't occupy a side-by-side bay if there is a pair of bays empty because both cars charging on a side-by-side bay charge at half-speed. A single car in a side-by-side charges at full speed.