Frequently asked questions about charging, costs, and range

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Calca

This is all in calca syntax so you can download that for free and copy-paste this whole post into it and change the numbers for your car or electric rates. Calca is like a spreadsheet met a text editor, it's great. I don't work for Calca it's just a great tool.

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A Better Routeplanner

A note on DC fast charging on road trips. Every car has a charging curve (here's mine, and here's one for a Kia EV6 and a Tesla Model 3). What that means is that for battery chemistry reasons your car charges from 20%-30% way faster than it charges from 90%-100%. Tools like A Better Route Planner or your car's in-built trip planner will do routing using that fact to get to the destination faster, usually by taking advantage of the battery range that your car charges the fastest. So even on a long road trip you probably aren't doing 0%-100% charges, you're probably doing more like 15%-85% between stations. That also means that the 150kW number above can't be precisely trusted, but the range where it can't be trusted is a range you probably won't be using. This is also true of cars like the EV6 or Taycan that can charge at 350kW: they aren't charging at that rate the whole time, only on the lower end of a charge.

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