[secabeen]

The challenge with the CCS stations is they are generally only one or two plugs. As CCS cars become more prevalent, they're going to need much larger setups, with 8, 10 or 12 plugs at each station. The wait to quick-charge is bad enough. It would be a lot worse if you had to wait 20 minutes just to get on the charger.

[dangrossman]

There are only one or two plugs because there are no cars to use them. BMW's sold just 22K i3's to date worldwide. Chevy's sold a few thousand Spark EV's. Tesla and Leaf don't use CCS. Most of the time the chargers sit completely idle. There's no need, nor financial projections to justify, building more CCS plugs per location. The ratio of CCS plugs to CCS-capable cars is probably better than the ratio of Supercharger plugs to Tesla cars. Tesla's locations are the ones known for the lines of waiting cars.

Keep in mind the Bolt hasn't gone on sale yet. Nobody's bought one, there are zero Bolt drivers available to pay money to Blink/CP/NRG that are laying out $50K+ to build each CCS charger. If they've built nearly 900 of them around the nation anyway, on the premise that the cars are coming, think about how fast the network can expand when there are actual cars on the road to justify doing so. Volkswagen is going to dump almost $2 billion into building CCS chargers as part of its settlement for the emissions scandal.

Like all technology, early adopters will suffer "just one or two plugs" for a while... or not, if you're in Pennsylvania like me, and the chargers are unused and available 100% of the time I check Plugshare... so that in a few years, when there are half a million or more EVs on the road... that is, potential customers... we will have created demand that led to those additional plugs being built.

Complaining that there are only 1579 fast charge plugs for the Bolt before it goes on sale is like complaining there weren't enough iPhone docks available before the iPhone came out. The accessories showed up after the customers that can buy them did.

[secabeen]

Fair enough. I've seen full J1772 charger stations, but you're right that I haven't seen full CCS stations. As the number of CCS-capable cars increase, we should see improvements in station capacity and reliability.