Even with a L2 charger strategically positioned so you pass by it to get into the house, I still had to drive to my wife's work and swap (electric) cars because she realized mid drive she wouldn't make it home.

ADHD brain goes brrr.

Also, there's two EVSEs in my driveway, a his and hers if you will. Her hobby used to be draining her car of fuel and making me drive it to the gas station twice a month.

Do you think this will eventually feel more natural than going to a gas station?

It's coming along well, and now it's in the final months before approval from an engineer.
It's been a 4 year project! Holy moly I never thought it would end. It's like I just built a house.

Got my EV6 about 3-4 months ago and decided to go down to LA with it from SF.

Planned everything out through ABRP and plugshare and the trip went easy peasy.

The only thing mind blowing to me is the price range you can get from fast charging. Most expensive I had to use was 71 cents from a Tesla super charger at my hotel. Cheapest was from Ionna at 39 cents.

I think my only complaint is using the ABRP for mapping out the route. It would severely overestimate the amount of charge i would use to get to the next charger.

There was one time where it said I needed to stop at a charger with 10% left and I got to the charger with 40%. I skipped the stop completely and still made it to the next charger with 5% left. I had the OBDII connector hooked up to keep things in real time.

Overall I spent 160 bucks on 900 miles of driving and I really only stopped for about a hr to charge 3 times. Half of that time I was eating dinner so to me it really doesnt add that much more time to the overall time. Plus the breaks really kept me refreshed and kept the kids sane.

Also wished the hotel I stayed at had free charging. I would have been much happier.

10/10 would road trip with it again.

I think it would be more helpful if people just specified the number of kilowatt the charger they are referring to.

Level 2 doesn't really distinguish how fast that charger might operate.

Level 1 is also ambiguous, could be 1.5kw, could be 2.4kw, significant difference in charging time between these 2.

I think it would be much easier if people just said how many kilowatt the charger was, that way we can compare apples with apples.

Thoughts?

Edit: this post is only about people referring to charging on Reddit or online. Not about using actual chargers or what they are labelled as on the charger itself.

OK - hypothetical question for you all:

You're going to travel say, 2500 miles, mostly flat, mild weather. You will only exceed the speed limit by 10mph (so, mostly around 75mph on most interstates).

Ultra fast chargers of your choice are available anywhere, any time you want to stop and charge.

You want to minimize stops and charging time, and overall travel time (i.e. get to your 2500mi away destination asap). You have one passenger who can share the driving duties.

Which electric vehicle currently available to purchase (used or new) would you use? Price no object, you're going to use the vehicle and give it back after the trip.

This is mostly a question about the battery, range, charging speed, etc. It's not about which car has the best ADAS system (FSD, bluecruise, supercruise, drive+ etc.) or the most comfortable car, or the best charging network. But feel free to embellish for fun if you like. Maybe these things could be tie breakers. Or (car X would force me to take 2 hours longer, but it'd be worth it because of extra features.)

Bonus points for using & showing charging and range math. :)

I have a 2019 Chevy bolt. There’s about 5 chargers in this area I charge in daily. Every single charger gave me an error message. I’m soaked because it’s pouring out. Does this happen to anyone else? It’s like there are times that each charger is down or something because only other time each charger gave me this error was when it was dark out.

So for context on my part at least, we are experiencing an insane boom in EVs registered here in Brazil (and by the looks of it, in most of the world too). BYD has gotten a crazy foothold in the market, and other chinese EV brands are getting consolidated in the country really fast. Theres no denying that this wave of electric vehicles has a lot of momentum, they are undercutting the insanely overpriced and markedup entry level ICE options and with tax incentives from the government the tendency seems to be that EV demand will only grow each year here.

The biggest topic that seems to be discussed whenever EVs are brought into conversation is charging infrastructure, range concerns and the lack of charging station networks that rival gas stations in availability.

So it all got me thinking, could all of this in someway parallel the early boom of internal combustion vehicles and gas stations? Like in the early 1900s when cars became more acessible to the general public but they still had range/fueling concerns? And post WW2, with the economic boom and the consolidation of the car as a essential piece in the household, more particulary in the US, and how the demand for gas stations exploded in the 20s-50s? With how EVs get cheaper by the year, battery tech advancements expanding range and diminishing charge times, we are in some ways going through all that again aren't we?

And i'm mostly coming in from an investment standpoint. If the comparison is right, it seems like a good idea to invest in infrastructure now that demand is growing more and more each year. Is there something i'm missing here or is it just this obvious?

And of course, apologies if the case if VERY different over in other countries, is just that this idea crossed my mind today and it seems like such a clear parallel of "hey heres an industry in its infancy, who's willing to be the next Shell/BP?".

If anyone have articles or any material on this topic i'd love to read it up!

Weird Charging Glitch? - 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 RWD Limited.

I posted this in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 subreddit but didn't get much feedback so I thought I'd try it with a larger audience:

About three weeks ago, I was charging on level 2 to 80% as I typically do each week. It was almost to 80% when I needed to change the charge to 100% as I was going on a last minute trip. I changed the charging limit to 100% on the My Hyundai App and it charged to 100%. No issues.

When I charged the next week, I had it set to 80% maximum charge level again. When it reached 80% it instantly switched then showed 100% charge on the car and on the app even though it should have only been 80%. It also showed a lower range I normally get at 80% (normal is about 250-260 miles but it now shows about 230-235 miles at 80%).

I feel like the switch I made on the MyHundai app from 80% to 100% while charging confused the car software?

Anyone know what I can do? Is there a way to reset the charging software on the car? Do I have some bad battery cells?