[chiph]

About a year ago, the EA chargers were a crapshoot as to whether the rate negotiation with the vehicle would work. Looks like they either solved that problem, or had technical support from EA to ensure they wouldn't be delayed on their trip.

https://youtu.be/lR41-IS9HTU?t=2590

[stephbu]

The latter is more likely than the former, and I’d suspect reconnaissance to add to that support.

We’ve driven the west-coast corridor a bunch and contemplated several getting a different brand EV to go with our Tesla. Often seen/watched/checked-on-ABRP the EA sites down to just one or two working CCS chargers e.g. at Woodbury, OR. It put us off this year at least.

[rasz]

Previous Cannonball EV record sets the tone

>Conner tells us that he had the engineers at both Porsche and Electrify America on speed dial for this run. Despite it being New Year's Eve, he was able to work with the teams to ensure that the car was operating to its potential (despite the bugs) and the chargers he was visiting were both working and reliable.

[_ea1k]

The driver said that he had to change plugs several times. It seems clear that failed sessions were not counted as charging time.