Hi Mark, As a ex-Bolt Premier and a Tesla Model 3 owner, I love the Bolt and appreciate the technology of the Model 3 but I feel safer in the Bolt because of its safety set up. Somehow, my Model 3 does not see a vehicle in my blind spot until it **is** in my blind spot. How can Tesla can see a 1/4 mile down the road but not see a "dump truck" in my blind spot? Tesla says my sensors are okay. Chevy put lights in their side view mirrors. When a vehicle enters **or is about to enter** my blind spot, the lights in those mirrors light up yellow. They were not perfect but it's blind spot detection is far above that of my Model 3.
With the Bolt, if I am parked between two humongous SUV's and start to pull out in reverse, the sensors see people and cars approaching and they warn me. Not so the Model 3. If I want to see what is behind me in the Model 3, I can press the rear view camera button and it takes up a lot of the touch screen making it difficult to do other things until the camera is turned off. With the Bolt, the rear view camera signal is fed to the rear view mirror. Once I discovered that, I never went back to the rear view mirror as a plain rear view mirror. My son was in need of a commuter car so I "sold" him the Bolt. It's a great commuter car and he saves a lot by not buying gasoline but road trips are not as convenient as you are finding out. There are Electrify America stations that he can recharge at toward the end of the week. He's Level 1 at home. With respect to the Bolt, the range, recharge times, and recharge stations are minor league compared to the Tesla cars and network. He pays more for electricity. In some ways, I think the price of a Tesla hides the cost of the recharging and software updating systems. I paid about $0.23/kwhr in an area where home rates are about $0.11/kwhr but I don't use them hardly at all. I know my son pays more. The Supercharger network is well worth that price. If I want to take a trip, it's got to be in the Tesla just for the range and recharge times along with the spacing of the Supercharger network. Hope that helps. On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:42 AM Mark Hanson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Hi folks > When I fast charge on the Road to 80% with my Bolt EV it takes about an hour > to put back 25KWH. The manual says it should be 55kwh in an hour. Does > anyone know why it’s not charging at the 55KW rate? Is there an aftermarket > kit to boost the KW acceptance rate? Electrify America fast CCS chargers > operate to 350KW. Also I paid 43c per kWh at Sheetz near Charlottesville Va > (home is 12c). I assume they split the take between Sheetz and Electrify > America (VW)? > I saw on the news that folks in Texas are paying $100s per KWH and utilities > cleaning out checking accounts $10k-$16k since direct link to accounts. How > is this even possible to charge that much per KWh? Aren’t utilities regulated > for a max per kWh they can charge? I have a direct link to my checking > account with my utility to pay the monthly $31 service fee (net zero solar > customer ) but maybe I should discontinue my checking account number with > them and go back to monthly billing/paper checks so they couldn’t clean out > my checking account? > Have a renewable energy day > Mark in Roanoke > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
