ericy Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 I was playing with some route planning, and I have noticed that in some cases it recommends that I stop at an EA charger to charge up to over 90%. Charging at EA with a Kona is pretty expensive to begin with, but with tapering of the charge rate, it gets ridiculous since the charge rate is something like 20kW when you get to such a high SOC, and we are paying nearly 60 cents a minute for the privilege of using an EA charger. I am enclosing a clip from one such route from Delaware to Minneapolis. It has me charge from 10% to 92% in Bedford PA, which would take nearly an hour, and cost 39$ for just this one charge stop, and the whole trip is $180 (total charge time 4:48). This is despite the fact that there are other chargers along the route that it could choose from - I can manually add other charging stops along the way, and that gets the total trip cost down to $155 (total charge time 4:47). Anyways, it is unclear to me exactly what this thing is optimizing for here, but whatever it is, the results can be somewhat perverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
