I’m a new EV owner and have a charging etiquette question for a long trip we are going to take next summer. We live in rural WV and luckily the small regional airport here has 12 charging stations in the one parking garage on site. They are free to use while parking in the garage. I’d like to park and charge here while we are away on our trip but I’m not sure if this is polite. Plugshare says they are pretty slow stations and better for charging while you are away traveling. Just as extra info, there is no valet here that could move my vehicle after it is charged so it will be there until I get back from our trip. And yes I do need to charge to make it the next destination after our flight lands. What are your thoughts? I don’t see an option other than leaving the vehicle here while away flying but is it polite to do so?
IMO, airports should be installing a crap ton of L1 chargers for this purpose. Taking a couple days to get a full charge is perfectly acceptable if one is away on a trip, and it would lower the install and operating costs allowing the airport to install more of them.
You are absolutely correct, this is a perfect use case for 100 or so good quality L1 chargers
This. Atl airport has 100 or so spread across a few garages. Most are L1 which is good enough when I’m gone for a couple of days
L2 is more cost effective. Charging losses at L1 speeds are significantly more than L2 speeds. For 1 datapoint for 1 car, Ioniq Guy measured 31% loss for L1 vs 9% for L2 on a warm day.