New FHWA standards for EV charging funds

[Craigins]

(b)(1) is a critical requirement!!! So if it doesn't dispense at least 150kW (at 250-920V), it isn't "up".

This is going to be impossible to enforce. How many people will pull up at like 80% charge and then report that they aren't getting 150kW. Or their battery won't be preconditioned and they won't get the full amount.

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[Dark-Fx]

This is going to be impossible to enforce. How many people will pull up at like 80% charge and then report that they aren't getting 150kW. Or their battery won't be preconditioned and they won't get the full amount.

Nefarious anti-tesla'ers could stop at the Tesla stations to report them as "not up"

 

[Dark-Fx]

My biggest concern about this whole tax dollar thing is about the stations that weren't put up under this program. Are they going to end up even less reliable because the maintenance and repair resources are just dedicated to the new stations under the program?

 

[atebit]

Agreed. As @Marchin_MTB said in an earlier post, the key is to making these locations profitable, then the owners won’t need the gummn’t to tell them what to do, their various Boards of Directors will. Gummn’t mandates would be better served figuring out getting L2 charging infrastructure to dwellings where street or parking structure parking is the norm. At least until we’re able to go to a Shell Station and exchange “spent” electrolyte (to be reprocessed at the station) for “charged” electrolyte in 4-5 minutes.

 

[zefram47]

At least until we’re able to go to a Shell Station and exchange “spent” electrolyte (to be reprocessed at the station) for “charged” electrolyte in 4-5 minutes.

That actually might be a thing down the road. Last time I looked into flow batteries they were talking about replacing one of the electrodes on around a 3000 mile cadence, so not unlike an oil change.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/08/flow-batteries-for-electric-vehicles/

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