While the quality of electric vehicles is improving, the quality of charging infrastructure is showing signs of degradation, such as in the US – Photo: CarScoops
Sheet car scoops Had the opportunity to borrow the Audi Q8 e-tron 2024 electric car for testing from the US in August. While the car experience went smoothly, his “nightmare” began when he needed to return the car to the company. But make no mistake come from exactly the German electric SUV.
Due to returning the car the next day after traveling 150 kms to the drop off point, car scoops Decided to fully charge the car a day before. They drop the car off at a fast charging point and don’t forget to confirm that the car is charged: Check that the charging light is on, the charger also shows a charging message.
However, when they returned to the location of the tram, they received a message like the picture below. After about 2 hours of “charging” the car didn’t turn on at all, but still reported “charging” and “full”.
At that time, the battery capacity of the car was a little over 30 km – this figure was 1/5 of the distance traveled, while the car had to pay off … At 6 am the next day, it was 21 hours.
After 1 hour and 51 minutes of charging, the Audi electric car gets… a round zero Photo: Carscoops
so car scoops Searching for nearby charging stations. Because the Audi Q8 e-tron only supports charging up to 170kW, they don’t need to find charging points very fast, so the criteria don’t need to be very strict. Through several websites that support maps of charging stations in the US, he found several charging points that are correct.
However, it is only when those charging points are reached that the electric vehicle service infrastructure becomes problematic. A charging point appears to support up to 50 kW of charging, but actually only returns… 7 kW.
The other charging station does not accept any form of payment by card or application from many different phones. At this time, the battery capacity is only 20 km.
Move to the next charging station, payment methods continue to decline car scoops, After the battery capacity of the Audi electric car was almost exhausted, they reluctantly went with the gasoline car to find nearby charging points. At 10 pm, when they returned with the tram, they were suddenly able to pay again.
In the US, public charging systems are provided by various third parties. Each party has its own payment method and application – Photo: Carscoops
Once this step is completed, the next problem reappears. The above charging point only supports 50kW charging and up to 60 minutes. This means they will have to charge the car 2 times, each time helping to restore around 45% of the battery capacity.
Members double checked the car car scoops Go home. However, when they got home, they discovered that the charging process was faulty, and had to go back to the charging station to restart it. It was also the last trouble that brought an end to his tumultuous evening.
lesson learned car scoops The lesson after this unforgettable experience is to never believe what is shown on the charger or in the application.
Always make sure that the electric vehicle itself indicates that it is being charged, and that the battery is slowly filling up. Also, if you have to use an electric car for a long journey, try to prepare as soon as possible.
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