[ericy]

It’s probably going to come down to how often you would need to charge and if the location is convenient for doing other things, like errands or grabbing a cup of coffee or something. Since it’s a lease, I wouldn’t worry much about battery degradation due to exclusive DCFC, especially if you don’t charge it to 100% and leave it that high.

Yeah, the big question is how many miles/week you honestly think you would be driving. That will determine how often you need to charge. Then you can start to think about whether any of the normal trips you already make can be combined with charging.

Thank you for your advice. The charging stations are in a Walmart parking lot (9 total stations with 1 at 350kw and the others a mix of 150 and 50kw) which is also close to other stores and restaurants.

Sounds like Somerdale

 

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Thank you. I think so as well. My wife’s biggest concern is if one of us wound up in the hospital for an extended period, driving back and forth each day would require charging. I have no problem with that but she does. Any points to help convince her are welcome.

Those kinds of hypotheticals are complicated only because there are multiple hospitals out there, and "extended period" is kind of open-ended. But it still comes down to a question of how many miles/day one might drive in this scenario, and you still have a nearby EA that would let you top up in 15-20 minutes any time you need it.

 

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It's going to be an increasingly touchy situation as adoption increases. I've seen them at recently built properties but they are pretty rare at older properties. It's much easier for a developer to install them when a property is being built and using them as a selling point than convincing all the owners at an existing building to pay to add them, considering the vast majority won't have an EV.

It gets real complicated real fast. Some places have reserved parking - those have the most complicated situtation. In those cases, in some cases a condo board might put chargers in the guest slots, but that limits guest parking.

My cousin lives in a building where they have reserved parking - there each owner foots the bill for installing their own EVSE, but the garage seems to be relatively well provisioned so the cost to each owner isn't prohibitive. I saw at least two the last time I was there.

 

[ericy]

Thank you. I did finally convince her to move forward with the ID4 now I just have to wrap my head around going from filling up with gas to charging. I keep going over over that in my mind and it's starting to affect my decision. Any additional insight you can provide to help me get past this mindset would be very much appreciated.

It is a bit of an adjustment, but once you get used to it, it all becomes 2nd nature.

Anything you can do to combine existing trips with charging is a win as well. For example, if you go out to the movies and there is a L2 in the parking lot, you can get a decent charge while you are inside.

We go to NYC from time to time - we drive to Hamilton NJ to pick up NJT, and there is free L1 charging on the top level of the parking garage. When we return from the city, we are charged back to 80% and ready for the trip home.