Thanks for the update. Interesting you would mention Rivian’s lack of progress. Since Rivian has access to Superchargers now, why even have a Rivian network? There was an announcement that they were going to open up their network, but they haven’t. Interesting point of note is that they have several stations strategically positioned all along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and they are sitting largely unused. I wanted to charge there, and of course could not. I think the entire Rivian Network looks like a good takeover target for a larger CPO (ChargePoint! Mercedes, EVgo, Ionna?). Any rumors to any of that effect? It’s just amazing it’s still a closed network, needed capacity for everyone, and low usage and no updates.
The only word, and I heard it again just today, is that their announced intention is to open b4 12/31. Otherwise I would speculate their lack of progress is due to cost cutting measures
The Hoover Dam/Boulder City Tesla Location opening up is great for road tripping and to pass through Las Vegas. Las Vegas is up there with Southern California for having charging locations overwhelmed by people trying to charge.
Thank you for your information. I drive from Indianapolis to Phoenix twice a year in a2023 Lyriq. The Google Maps never show the Flying J chargers. Thanks to you I know where they are. They are by far the best chargers.
Thanks, Walter. There are some interesting additions here, as always. Claremont, NH is notable because of the rather remote location and high power level. It's 200kW hardware in a location and state with a dearth of DCFC. Nice addition locally but a bit far to be convenient for I-91 and it's at a gas station, rather than a dealership, so locals have a great option there that shouldn't be too crowded.
It is lice to see active weeks like this one. Almost all CPOs I track added stations. As you point out, some r smaller, but in underserved areas, meaningful to those in need. Thx 4 watching
4:57 I still maintain that a lot of the issue with station crowding in California comes from people hyper focusing on just a couple of networks. The other issue is distribution. Most of the chargers going in are isolated to just a few metro regions and travel corridors, but outside of those specific areas and routes, the overage isn't necessarily any better than it is in the rest of the country.
Maybe Revel or Gravity or both will come in with mega sites and start to push others to the off beaten path communities. Will be interesting to watch. Thx for viewing
There are quite a lot of Flo dispensers out in the wild in the US. About 1/3 of Francis Electric’s dispensers are by Flo. As opposed to the BTC and ABB units, which are not in any way reliable, the Flo ones seem to be rock solid in their operation. The problem being they are all limited to 50 kw max
Thanks, Walter. There are some interesting additions here, as always. Claremont, NH is notable because of the rather remote location and high power level. It's 200kW hardware in a location and state with a dearth of DCFC. Nice addition locally but a bit far to be convenient for I-91 and it's at a gas station, rather than a dealership, so locals have a great option there that shouldn't be too crowded.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel Yep! Auto play on my Google Home switched to the next one while I typed this on the newest DCFC update playing beforehand... copy/paste coming up!
Fun fact about the Loomis location. Kiddie corner to this Costco is the Rocklin Target which just had its EA upgraded. At one intersection there are 20 EA chargers. Great progress.
The number of gas pumps in the United States is estimated to be between 900,000 and 1.8 million, based on the assumption that the average gas station has between six and 12 pumps. This would mean that there are 153 to 307 cars per pump. How is 180K EV chargers going to be enough when an EVs spends a lot more time charging than a Gas car fillimg up?
@@firstbigbarney before transitioning to EV in the 1990s, in the 1980s I fueled up the car with gas at home. This was "Natural Gas" and connected a natural gas compressor the houses supply from the gas company. This would take a few hours to fuel up similar to electric fueling currently but a bit louder due to the compressor.
Thanks for the update. That BP Pulse location that just opened in Louisville KY appears to the Thorntons #95 on Plugshare its on the east side of the city, right off 265 and US60, good location. There is a photo of the dispensers in place from Aug 15th. The Kimball TN location is the typical pair of CPE-250's part of the Fast Charge TN network.
Can confirm as well the MB chargers at Bucee's in Temple, TX has 6 plugs operational as they have for some time, but 4 more have been added that haven't been turned on yet. They also have 48 V3 Superchargers with Magic Docks, and another 10 or 12 V4 stalls coming online soon. Quite the charging stop. The Royse City location also only had 6 for a while but had the 2 additional stalls added and that one went online sooner (not competing with a V4 install literally feet away at the same time).
Thanks for the update. If it's video worthy, would you mind doing a video between Mercedes-Benz charging network and IONNA? MB network has several sites, but IONNA has zero so far. Is there a merger? Two separate things? Any info you have on that I'd be curious to know. :)
@@anthonyc8499 Yeah. Some people were excited with so many companies in it together. ...but I figured that with so many different cooks in the kitchen that nothing wrould get done.... or what would be served would be crap. Turns out to be the case, so far.
That kind of SUCKS. You are doing a great job. Now, just more videos / channels to watch. But, I can't complain more as it's your time. Too bad more if the 350+ kw chargers are not where larger vehicles could charge like school busses, large commercial vans and larger trucks along with towing evs.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos Walter. Ever since fastcharger website stopped updating you have been a great source of information. Do you think GM energy will build the next tranche (400 sites) all in 2025 or will they stretch the builds to '26?
With 12 Pilot locations on Ohio's NEVI list at varying stages of construction, that alone should take us close to the 80s before winter hits. Your forecast of 100+ seems on point.
Also, I did get a chance to visit Grand Ledge, MI (Lansing area) and it's currently $0.45/kWh with a canopy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oNIK18D5m5Q.html
Walter, In this update you mentioned a glitch in that you failed to mention an Open Site in Franklin, TN. Did you mean Franklin, KY or is Franklin, TN indeed a new site?
@@thenetworkarchitectchannelI live in Franklin, TN and knew we didn’t have a PFJ here. Glad to see them coming into service on the I-65 Corridor. I travel to Somerset, KY couple times per year so the new PFJ location in Franklin, KY is helpful along with the EA site in Bowling Green, KY (adjacent to the Corvette Museum). Unfortunately, about 10 miles north of Bowling Green, I head east on the Cumberland Parkway to Somerset and there’s the problem. No Level 3 chargers in between and including Somerset. Somerset has a small handful of Level 2 chargers. London, KY, 33 miles away on the I-75 corridor, is the nearest Level 3 (Tesla) and not sure if it’s compatible with GM cars. So, an area of 152 miles between Bowling Green and London, KY likely qualify as a charging desert. I have the 24 Lyriq AWD Sport 3 trim so, a round trip for that area would require some slow charging in between. Thanks for keeping us updated on charging information. very appreciated!
Thanks, Walter. I almost feel like there is no native EVgo anymore. Almost every site I've seen is GM Energy or sponsored by Nissan, Toyota, or a government contract or grant. Perhaps that's always been the case for EVgo, where they almost never install a site on their own without additional support. Either way, I'm planning to do an EVgo endurance run soon, so I'll be sure to give you a heads up. Also, thanks for sharing Allen's channel. I'm looking forward to the Love's updates. We have a couple key Love's travel locations in my region.
Good point Eric. I am surprised GM hasn't purchased them yet. Seems like as you say, GM is EVgo's main sponsor. Will be great to see some of their Flagship stations next year. Look forward to you upcoming EVgo endurance run.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel The flagship sites are definitely going to be interesting. I need to do my own poll for the endurance run: "Leaving from home in the morning and returning home at night the same day, how many different 350 kW EVgo locations will I be able to visit in my Chevy Bolt EV?"
keep an eye on the price of the energy. do reports to make people aware if they are gouging or fair prices. GM is in it but in it to gouge or be fair!!!
@@NicholasLittlejohn If we keep on top of it, we report it and everyone knows. Unless they're in dire need, they'll skip them and they'll have to lower the prices. We have the power to help keep them honest
Reliable charging at Laredo is very big, due to the extreme lack of chargers in Mexico, on the other side of the river. The lack of charging in Mexico will always likely translate into a lot of people wanting to charge in Laredo all the way to 100%, so I hope the site has lots of stall capacity to accommodate this, and lots of things for people to do (and spend money) while they wait for their car to reach 100%.
When I saw that one, it too made me excited. I could imagine it is often considered fly over country and undeserved. Great to see a ligit canopy station going in. Thx for watching.
I’m looking forward to seeing what OR and WA come out with in their NEVI awards. Washington has released their state-level grant lists but is incompetently behind with NEVI.
Thanks for the shout out Walter! Keeping track of everything that's going on in this new industry is indeed a challenge, so thanks for all your work in bringing it to us.
For what it's worth, from what I recall monitoring the tempo of Electrify America stations when they were building out a lot was that stations were slow to open January to June, and faster in the back half of the year. I think you could look for this trend by taking the AFDC site, taking the "date opened" for all the stations, and plotting by how many are open over time to reconstruct the time history of openings, or look at like "stations in first quarter of their opening year" vs "stations in second quarter of opening year" vs Q3/Q4? I might do that if I get time.
Always appreciate the hard work you put into these updates. I know your spreadsheet has limited space, but can you comment on the power output of the chargers? For most people at a fast charger, they care a lot about how long it takes to charge. A 350kw EA charger vs 250wk Tesla Supercharger vs 150kw Tesla Supercharger vs even less kw chargers result in vastly different charge experiences. In other words, all fast chargers are not equal. What are your thoughts on this? Why are some companies spending large sums of money to install 150kw "fast chargers" in 2024? It seems like the industry is quickly migrating to 800V battery technology that allows 350kw fast charging (CyberTruck, Hyundai, Kia, Porsche, Hummer, Lucid)
Just got my adapter today and can't wait to try it out! Great video, thanks for the info. One thing that was implied, but should be called out - if you go to a busy Supercharger that you have to queue for, the natural process would be to say: when the next spot comes open I'll use it. But you can't. As was pointed out in the video - you can only charge if there are two spots, RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER, that come open at the same time. Just something to be aware of. UPDATE: Just got back from Supercharger test. It went flawlessly, but I was surprised at the speed of charge: 66Kw. I thought it would be faster. It could be that I was already at 73% though. Regarding the double charging spots issue: This became clear right away - my local supercharger (the only one in town) has 8 spots, and when I went there was only one opportunity for me to charge (where there were two spots next to each other). So it could be a problem at some time.
Great point. I think in areas where they are congested, for me they are locations of last resort. Glad u got your adapter so fast. Most Ford & Rivian folk are still waiting. GM is showing their muscle on this one.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel Yeah but there's a big asterisk there. Ford and Rivian owners are still waiting for their FREE adapter. I had to cough up $225 for mine. I only got it so fast because I ordered it on the first day of availability.
There is no way I-40 will be ready for your trip in Dec. AZ, NM and CA are not that far along. Good news is EA has that part well covered. EA has chargers at the Grand Canyon.
I really only need W. Memph, Albuquerque, and Belmont AZ. Those are pretty far along. The one in WNC may be a buster though. I went there this weekend and they have not started yet. I may need to EA audible that one. Thx for watching. Should be a fun trip regardless.
Doesn't matter, won't ever buy an EV. Thanks to the monopoly granted Evil Musk on chargers I refuse to buy one it would automatically put money in his pocket.
@@thenetworkarchitectchannel You support evil, great, good for you. Musk fired employees during covid so he wouldn't have to pay unemployment, and that was the nicest thing that evil p*ick has done.
Yeah, I’m also curious how EVgo’s pre-cast units will work with their upcoming pull through stations. The legacy CPOs better get their act together or IONNA will give em a beating. Thx 4 watching
I'm a huge fan of Kempower and their way of doing things! Old boxy chargers for 2-4 cars is outdated. We need big distributed fields with loads of small footprint chargers, like Kempower/Tesla.
