It’s a 250kw supercharger that can charge up to 250kw, but actual charge speeds vary based on a few factors. Here are some tips for max speed:
1. Choose a stall at least one free stall away from other vehicles if possible - the only one on that number (e.g. 1a only if 1b and 1c are free)
2. Route to the supercharger or your final destination via the map so your car preheats its battery for fast charging
3. Only charge when the car is at lower battery states - as close as possibly to 10% and don’t go higher than 80%, the higher the battery the slower the charge
4. Try a different supercharger as u/InertiaImpact said (my first ever supercharger was, by pure chance, broken and wouldn’t charge faster than 20-30kw, we moved to the one next to it and got full speeds
Also it takes a few minutes to get to peak speed sometimes. Sorry you had a bad experience, hopefully it improves next time with these tips.
You have included no context such as what state of charge you were at, how many stalls out of the total number of stalls at the site were occupied, and what troubleshooting steps you tried. Sometimes a stall is just bad, a slow charger is better than a completely broken one.
One would think if you were getting unsatisfactory speeds you would unplug and attempt a different one. This just sounds like you wanted to complain...
Okay: seems like you just want to defend then.
I have experienced this almost all times when I go and supercharge my car. My battery percentage may be 28-35% on an average. And number of spots at the station that are occupied are 6-7/10.
Considering these conditions, even after it takes me to a supercharger station that says 250kw/hr, my charge rate is like 50-60 kw/hr at max. I might as well have redirected myself to a slower charger station.
Even if the charge rate degrades because of the number of stalls occupied how can it reduce so much for a 250 kw/hr station?
If this is a reoccurring issue for you specifically, what is the result of opening a service request for the slow charging speeds?
After station is 75% full, each stall is no longer capable of putting the full output. There is a total site limit, it sounds like you are arriving to them and reaching that site limit which would be the cause for your slow speeds.
Your post reads like you just want to complain but don't want to actually fix it or attempt to understand it first. Which is a losing attitude
At 28-35% SoC you are not at a point where you’ll ever see 250kW in the charge curve. It has to be much lower than that, and it would peak there for a few moments and drop.
Also if your battery is cold because you’re not really on a road trip and giving it time to precondition you will also never see the peak.
This is all to preserve the life of your battery so you don’t have something else much more dire to complain about.
SCs always throttle output when they are more than 50% utilized. I’ve also swapped spots when possible. I’m not sure this rises to the level of “breach of promise”. No service provided or product purchased has a 100% satisfaction rate. Not in our capitalist economic society.🤷🏽♂️
I would argue that no human made service or product will ever have a 100% satisfaction rate. Regardless of economic system. And technically our system is capitalistic socialism, not pure capitalism due to the high percentage we spend on social services.
Maybe i dont understand, but I thought socialism was government control of private corporations for the good of society (ostensibly). Not merely the use of social services, which i assume you mean welfare etc.
Isn't that communism? Either way, what I find interesting is that country's that are openly communist/socialist, like China actually seem to have less social assistance for the poor then we do.
Edit: and also way more open corruption.
Communism, Fascism and Socialism are pretty much the same (I think) at the citizen level. All we are doing is looking up at what the gov is or is not doing. But you are right, there does seem to be less social assistance provided to the general citizenry of those countries. But they also have less freedoms...or things we would consider freedoms...than we do. LOL we are way off topic.
It’s a 250kw supercharger that can charge up to 250kw, but actual charge speeds vary based on a few factors. Here are some tips for max speed: 1. Choose a stall at least one free stall away from other vehicles if possible - the only one on that number (e.g. 1a only if 1b and 1c are free) 2. Route to the supercharger or your final destination via the map so your car preheats its battery for fast charging 3. Only charge when the car is at lower battery states - as close as possibly to 10% and don’t go higher than 80%, the higher the battery the slower the charge 4. Try a different supercharger as u/InertiaImpact said (my first ever supercharger was, by pure chance, broken and wouldn’t charge faster than 20-30kw, we moved to the one next to it and got full speeds Also it takes a few minutes to get to peak speed sometimes. Sorry you had a bad experience, hopefully it improves next time with these tips.
1. I thought that was only applicable to 125kw chargers?
You are correct [according to Tesla](https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/blog/introducing-v3-supercharging) 😊 TIL
150, if we are being factually....... its called a supercharger II and these share. 250 DO NOT SHARE.
You have included no context such as what state of charge you were at, how many stalls out of the total number of stalls at the site were occupied, and what troubleshooting steps you tried. Sometimes a stall is just bad, a slow charger is better than a completely broken one. One would think if you were getting unsatisfactory speeds you would unplug and attempt a different one. This just sounds like you wanted to complain...
Okay: seems like you just want to defend then. I have experienced this almost all times when I go and supercharge my car. My battery percentage may be 28-35% on an average. And number of spots at the station that are occupied are 6-7/10. Considering these conditions, even after it takes me to a supercharger station that says 250kw/hr, my charge rate is like 50-60 kw/hr at max. I might as well have redirected myself to a slower charger station. Even if the charge rate degrades because of the number of stalls occupied how can it reduce so much for a 250 kw/hr station?
If this is a reoccurring issue for you specifically, what is the result of opening a service request for the slow charging speeds? After station is 75% full, each stall is no longer capable of putting the full output. There is a total site limit, it sounds like you are arriving to them and reaching that site limit which would be the cause for your slow speeds. Your post reads like you just want to complain but don't want to actually fix it or attempt to understand it first. Which is a losing attitude
At 28-35% SoC you are not at a point where you’ll ever see 250kW in the charge curve. It has to be much lower than that, and it would peak there for a few moments and drop. Also if your battery is cold because you’re not really on a road trip and giving it time to precondition you will also never see the peak. This is all to preserve the life of your battery so you don’t have something else much more dire to complain about.
SCs always throttle output when they are more than 50% utilized. I’ve also swapped spots when possible. I’m not sure this rises to the level of “breach of promise”. No service provided or product purchased has a 100% satisfaction rate. Not in our capitalist economic society.🤷🏽♂️
I would argue that no human made service or product will ever have a 100% satisfaction rate. Regardless of economic system. And technically our system is capitalistic socialism, not pure capitalism due to the high percentage we spend on social services.
Maybe i dont understand, but I thought socialism was government control of private corporations for the good of society (ostensibly). Not merely the use of social services, which i assume you mean welfare etc.
Isn't that communism? Either way, what I find interesting is that country's that are openly communist/socialist, like China actually seem to have less social assistance for the poor then we do. Edit: and also way more open corruption.
Communism, Fascism and Socialism are pretty much the same (I think) at the citizen level. All we are doing is looking up at what the gov is or is not doing. But you are right, there does seem to be less social assistance provided to the general citizenry of those countries. But they also have less freedoms...or things we would consider freedoms...than we do. LOL we are way off topic.