[pfrost]

If you're interested, or need to send some one an explanation of how tapering works, I just finished a video on how the Bolt tapers at a 100 amp station. Special thanks to @Zoomit for some of the the graph data, and @Vertiformed for the timing data as well as sage advice and help with the video. There are some really generous people on this forum!

 

[surgeonFWW]

For the experience (and because the electricity was free) I charged to full (100%) at a 40kW max power (400V, 100A) EVSE. It took just under two hours and at the end, it was down to 5 amps (2 kW).

 

[GetOffYourGas]

For the experience (and because the electricity was free) I charged to full (100%) at a 40kW max power (400V, 100A) EVSE. It took just under two hours and at the end, it was down to 5 amps (2 kW).

What was your starting SoC? I've heard it takes about two hours to charge 0-100% on a 150A+ charger.

 

[surgeonFWW]

My wife and I had started in Huntington at 100% SoC. We drove 234 miles and had ~16 miles remaining on the GoM. At 4.2 mi/kWh, that is 3.8kWh which is ~ 6.3% SoC. This was the starting SoC for the DCFC.

 

[Vertiformed]

@surgeonFWW, I'm pretty sure your charger was 125A. It's fairly implausible that you could have charged from 6.3% to 100% in two hours from a 100A station. With a 125A charger we'd expect around 2 hours (150A would be 6.5 minutes faster, and 100A would be 10.5 minutes slower).

 

[surgeonFWW]

It was the time and the SoC on arrival I got wrong. It was 2:12 to fill from 17% to 98%. Check PlugShare > Hampton Inn Lexington-Historic District > Checkins > Rick's blue Bolt, July 8 (toward DC) & 14 (returning to Huntington), 2017. Thanks.