JOLT charging at Ferntree Gully Station
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I charged up again using the JOLT Charge at Ferntree Gully Station, while doing some work on my laptop.
While there, a Nissan Leaf pulled up next to me.
The driver, Tony, told me that he wanted to try out the Jolt charging for the first time. He bought his Nissan Leaf two years ago as a “grey” import for $18,000. It’s a 2014 model. It has a 24kWh battery but now only gets about 100km on a full charge. He also said that it doesn’t have great thermal management of the battery, so regular fast charging can be problematic. For comparison, our bottom range Tesla Model 3 has a 60kWh battery and gets 360 to 440km on a full charge. The technology has certainly come a long way since the original Nissan Leaf cars, but they paved the way.
Charging
The Leaf uses the Chademo cable, whereas the Tesla (and most other EVs) use the CCS2 connector. But the charging station doesn’t allow us to connect both cables at the same time, since it has a total maximum draw of 25kW.
I was happy to disconnect while he tried out the Chademo, and then reconnect after he’d finished. Neither of us were in a hurry.
The second hand EV market is still pretty pricey in Australia, but I think coming down rapidly.
Hopefully used EVs will be much better value when the recently purchased new fleet vehicles hit the used market in 6 to 12 months (which was the whole point of the EV incentives that wiped fringe benefit tax for EVs).
I notice that the initial free 7kWh seems to have reset for today, even though it's slightly less than 24 hours since I finished my last JOLT Charge. I'm guessing that it's 24 hours between charge starts.
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