Make friends with Lightning and IONIQ 5 reservation holders. You never know when VTV will come in handy but in the meantime find a F150 with on board power generation until Roadie comes to your area. Great review.
Tom, very awesome technology.. all road side Assistant trucks should have one of them .. This unit reminds me of the ECOFlow DeltaPro technology as well .. I think SparkCharge should also consider getting into the mobile battery generator and smart home backup .. they have almost all the tech already to do it .. Great 👍 content Tom .. more please!
I’m in a condo and that service might make it possible for me to go electric. Down here in south Florida I see many electrics , mostly Tesla’s. I’m glad I started watching you, thanks.
Like John Hoye, I too live in a SW Florida condo and went to great lengths to install a 9.6kW personal charger. Most condo associations would never allow you to install EVSE. I also know when 3 more owners want to charge, I’ll need service equipment that calculates individual usage and billing. Their new ChargeUp service appears amazing and I need to learn more about it. Charge-Up FAQs says the basic $25 service is 50 miles and you may reorder every 48 hrs. They may have advanced or 100 mi recharging for a higher price. Currently, ChargeUp is only available in Dallas, LA, and SFO. I’m tempted to start one in Boston and Ft. Myers, FL.
This is a great venture. Hopefully Spark can license a Tesla connector, the make three interchangeable plugs. Eliminating that damn heavy CHAdeMo adapter and not needing two different top units. Good luck guys!
I had them for three months, not so great. they dont deliver the full miles as promised and the techs some are clueless, they dont have enough batteries for a big city like LA and its more hassle then its worth.
I strongly believe the $25/month is an investor-subsidized, money-losing teaser rate, and that this will very quickly go the way of bikeshare. Meaning that either the rates will be jacked up to many times the current level, or the company will go out of business. When each charging visit consumes an hour of labor, and needs to be done by a person with enough physical strength to haul furniture for a moving company, you're probably looking at a true cost of around $100 per visit, at least, which is far, far more than $25/month.
A large Florida city such as Miami may be a good target market for ChargeUp. Electricity cost is under $0.10 and there’s ample sun for solar recharge. Two sets of batteries minimum are needed so while one is charging an EV, the other discharged pack is getting recharged.
Honestly it would make far more sense to take an EV with a big battery, like the F150, and charge the stranded car directly off of that. I wonder if that's a feature we'll eventually be seeing.
That might work in cities, once EV trucks become more plentiful, and not nearly impossible to get. But, in rural areas, I think a roadside assistance vehicle would need a much bigger battery than any EV truck currently offers. These trucks will probably continue to burn diesel for a long time.
@@johnvincent4048The point is to get the stranded EV enough power to reach the nearest fast charger. Give it 7kwh and it can make it easily, while your F150 still has 90kwh left.
I have been in, and recently sold my last Towing company a year ago. This sounds like my next venture, and am ready to jump in. I am in the Sacramento CA area. Any direction to move forward would certainly help. Thanks
I could see these in my shop, the local wreckers want to haul you to a charger or home not sit and charge you in a snow storm where they are limited getting to a recovery , im too old to roll in the snow anymore attaching hooks but to plug and sit in a warm truck anytime .
I’m curious how often this happens. This mite be a good side hustle as a driver for that company. I live in Colorado. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a EV on the side of the road
How many roadside EV charges can you get from one fully charged roadside charger?? How long does it take to charge the roadside charger back at home base??? You call and they say, I'm sorry sir it will be 12 hours all of our roadside chargers are being charged.
Got it: you hitch the little trolley up to your M3/other EV and drive away. No? Isn't it about time there was a standard so that all EVs could tow an extra battery whose charge can be accessed by the BMS, i.e., a towable extra traction battery. Would this be so hard to do? Hyundai/Kia and Ford have now got the EV2Home thing sorted -- maybe this could be their next innovation?
For less than $2,000 you can do the same thing with a big generator and EVSE. Also, a generator will not depreciate at nearly the same rate as the 12k battery pack. I'm willing to bet a service call with a half hour charging session will cost over $150 with the Roadie- so the customer will decide to have their vehicle towed to the nearest charger!!! I can't see why many Roadside companies would invest in one.
@@lilcourtny08 Depends how far the car actually needs to be towed. Most occasions when drivers do run out of power, they run out very close to a charging station. In which case, simply towing the car that last two miles can take less of the truck driver's time than sitting around, waiting for an emergency charge to complete.
2 questions Tom. Since you mentioned it and you seem to know exactly how much it costs you to charge at home can you please give the actual dollar figure of what it costs you? And the second question is what if you lose power for weeks because of a storm, can you use a generator to plug into to charge the car?
The cost to charge at home depends on your home electricity rate. I pay $0.15 per kWh and to fully recharge my Tesla Model 3 (if the battery was completely dead which never happens) would be about $12.00. Yes, you can charge your EV off of a generator.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney see now someone else said absolutely not because the spikes in a portable generator can cause damage to the computer in the car. So you're saying that your electric bill has only went up about $50 per month?
@@RDRUclips54 Yes, it costs me about $500/year to drive 15,000 miles. I personally charged EVs from a portable generator. The thing is if it's a very small and weak generator it might not deliver enough power and the power might fluctuate too much and the car won't accept it. But you certainly can charge an EV off of most portable generators - at least the good ones that deliver "clean power".
For the $25 subscription fee for ChargeUp, do they charge the vehicle all the way to 100%? Or to 80%? Or do they just give you 15 or 20 miles and that's it for that ChargeUp service call?
I'm going to find out more from SparkCharge soon with an interview. From what I understand, They give you a certain amount of miles for the $25/month fee. I don't know the exact amount, but it's way more than 15-20 miles. I thought I heard it was 50-miles twice a week, so 100 miles a week, but I will get that all confirmed soon.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Hi Tom, great review . tks. Did you managed to get the update of how much charge they provide forn$25/month? Or how they managed to price it so low.
The more I think about the SparkCharge service, the more I think their entire business model just doesn't make sense. They have to pay somebody to drive to your vehicle, unload the equipment, wait for the car to charge, load the equipment back up, and drive away. When they do drive away, their battery pack is depleted, so unless they have additional battery packs in their car (which would require that their "car" actually be a pickup truck or cargo van for them all to fit), they'd have to drive back to their home base to pick up a fresh battery back before they can service another customer. Add it all up, you're looking at around an hour of labor - per charging visit - not including the cost of operating the vehicle to carry the Roadie unit, the Roadie units themselves, electricity, or rent for the "home base" where the Roadie units are stored and charged. And all that to deliver *just* 10 kWh to the customer's car. Worse, because the Roadie units are big and heavy, you need a strong person to be able to load and unload them several times throughout a day, day after day after day. For example, a person whose arm muscles get sore after a couple of charging visits to the point where they can't work anymore for a few days, is probably not suitable for the job. This means SparkCharge would have to essentially compete with professional moving companies for labor, which, in turn, means that the labor is going to cost them far more than minimum wage - especially in a tight labor market where even WalMart cashiers make now more than minimum wage. If the end goal here is to offer a service to allow somebody who lacks home charging to charge their car without needing to spend any time, it seems to me like you could provide the service more efficiently by simply having the employee borrow the car keys, drive the customer's car to the nearest EVGo/Electrify America, charge it up, and drive the car back. The total labor cost between this service and the SparkCharge service might be similar, but at least my hypothetical service leaves the customer with 80% battery rather than 30%, when it's all done. However, if you think about it a bit more, really, neither of these services make sense because the target customer could also achieve their end goal (keep energy in their car without spending time) for far less money by simply buying a hybrid and filling it up at gas stations. Ultimately, if you want people to buy EVs, they need to have charging either at home, or at places they frequently visit. No labor-intensive mobile-charging service is going to be able to work its way around this.
Hi I live now back in Colo and it seems to be land of Tesla these days Love to make this happen here But am an idiot about Electrics but know the car industry Rental car company's first to mind... Any ideas?? An I am a Subscriber
It's not great - but it's also not really that bad as long as you recharge the vehicle relatively quickly. It is bad if you deplete the battery and then let it sit for many hours without recharging it.
20 kW for roadside assistance adds 15 miles of range in 20-minutes. It takes longer than 20-minutes to hook up a car to a tow truck. 15 miles should get the owner home or to the charging station that they fell short of.
Thanks for the response, Tom. I’ve never run out of gas (or charge) so I thought a tow truck would just add a gallon of gasoline and not tow, but I get your point about towing for an EV. I guess 50 amps is easier to deliver than 100 amps. 10 minutes at 20 kW may be enough, too.
I just contacted this company and they can't provide me a solution for my Wrangler 4xe. They said they only offer Level 3 DC charging. Shouldn't it be compatible with all J-1772 ports? No level 2?
Not really. -Level 2 takes too long to charge. All full EVs come with DC fast charging, only plug in hybrids do not and they can just run on gas - no real need to charge to get home.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Thanks for the info. Been doing some research since I posted and I guess I lack the 6th & 7th DC connector pins that are underneath the 5 connectors of a J1772. Yeah level 2 = 1.5 hours for me if completely drained.
They claim that they are sold out. The ID 4 has been out, in the states, for at least five months. I am interested in buying their charger, but not until you review it.
If you have to send some out to your car to charge it, it may be just as expensive to have your car towed to the nearest charger, or back to the tow truck driver’s shop.
Perhaps, but it will be much faster to just pull up and plug in for 20 minutes or so. The tow truck driver probably wouldn't even have the car hooked up and moving yet.
I bought I Tesla and I live in an apartment complex but I don’t bother to ask permission to change my electric car up I just did it anyway I just ran two (100) 50 foot 240 volts from my dryer outlet in my laundry room out my living room to my car
Bring mobile charging unit with an ICE-powered car is not logical and fundamentally wrong. It will eliminate zero-direct emissions of an EV vehicle in regular use. On the other hand, emergency use is very helpful.
I hope EV adoption gets so common that I won't have to ask if they have this service, it will just be expected. That and I hope more charging stations pop up with public level 1 free charging and level 2 for free or a nominal fee become ubiquitous.
In light of the fact that there are so many Tesla’s in use in North America, why is this system not available with a Tesla connector? I understand that an adapter is available, but to build a system that requires an adapter to be of use to such a massive customer base makes no sense.
Because nobody else is allowed to make a system that uses the Tesla connector - and please don't say "Tesla opened all of its patents for free use" because that's NOT the case. :)
Every Tesla comes with a J1772 adapter so user should have one. Surely the operator could bring a spare one to the Tesla needing a charge. I consider this a mute point.
@@johnpoldo8817 These are DC fast chargers, they don't use the J1772, so the supplied Tesla adapter won't work. You'd need to buy the $450 Tesla-CHAdeMO adapter. The SparkCharge operator always has the Tesla-CHAdeMO adapter on the truck.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney My mistake, the J1772 is AC only. I’m so spoiled with the Tesla connector doing both AC/DC. CHAdeMO looks very large so I wonder if CCS is better, assuming a CCS to Tesla adapter is available.
It's a good idea but if you own an EV you should be paying more attention. Don't let your charge get below 10%. This waycif you get to a charging spot, say Electrify America, and their not working you may have enough range to get to another charging station. For Tesla owners this isn't a big deal. In the near future try to make friends with Ford Lightning, Ioniq 5 and EV6 owners. Those vehicles have the ability to charge other EVs. 😛
no need for this battery based solution, you can just make a battery with stuff lying around in your vehicle like Mr White showed in his science documentary ...
I’m not seeing the need here. Eventually chargers will just be everywhere so running out will never happen. Does look like nicely engineered product though.
I’m totally seeing the need here. The transition is a massive and lengthy undertaking. Not only is this great during the transition even when it’s 100% whenever that may be there’s still a need for this as Tom said people still run out of gas all the time. I think this is huge!
Depends on what you mean by “Eventually”; besides, as Tom is saying, no matter how available chargers are, some people will run out of charge (rural secondary roads, airport parking lots, ….).
Yes, it can, but at a much slower rate. But unless you have a friend that drives one and happens to be available AND close to you when you need a boost, it's not helpful.
@@jimcmf2 I’ve never experienced running out of charge on my Tesla 3 or my Mach E, however I have run out of gas on my ICE vehicle a few times in my lifetime. I’m sure there are many instances of BEV’s running out of charge but I don’t think it’s very common as you suggest.
Lmao... Why don't you see electric vehicles in Alaska?.... Here, let me answer that for you because it's too fckng cold and the batteries don't last for sht...
Since i live in an apartment and not a house, I'll just buy these roadie batteries and charge my car when im not using it. My parking spot is next to my apartment, I would just need to make sure I have good aim with my sniper every time I see some shady thug fella near my batteries and cars so he doesn't tale anything. I am from Los Angeles, homeless people steal stuff without even a need for it.
Those are some cool skateboarders in the background
i agree😳
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Make friends with Lightning and IONIQ 5 reservation holders. You never know when VTV will come in handy but in the meantime find a F150 with on board power generation until Roadie comes to your area. Great review.
Tom, very awesome technology.. all road side Assistant trucks should have one of them ..
This unit reminds me of the ECOFlow DeltaPro technology as well .. I think SparkCharge should also consider getting into the mobile battery generator and smart home backup .. they have almost all the tech already to do it ..
Great 👍 content Tom .. more please!
I’m in a condo and that service might make it possible for me to go electric. Down here in south Florida I see many electrics , mostly Tesla’s. I’m glad I started watching you, thanks.
John, while this makes sense, a 2 pack will only add 7ish kWh. That’s like getting 1/8 of tank of gas. It’s perfect under an emergency.
Like John Hoye, I too live in a SW Florida condo and went to great lengths to install a 9.6kW personal charger. Most condo associations would never allow you to install EVSE. I also know when 3 more owners want to charge, I’ll need service equipment that calculates individual usage and billing. Their new ChargeUp service appears amazing and I need to learn more about it. Charge-Up FAQs says the basic $25 service is 50 miles and you may reorder every 48 hrs. They may have advanced or 100 mi recharging for a higher price. Currently, ChargeUp is only available in Dallas, LA, and SFO. I’m tempted to start one in Boston and Ft. Myers, FL.
Cool product! I am eagerly awaiting your M3 SR+ 70 mph range test. This development makes it even more interesting.
Awesome for getting that standard range plus! I asked a while back glad you're delivering👍
This is a great venture. Hopefully Spark can license a Tesla connector, the make three interchangeable plugs. Eliminating that damn heavy CHAdeMo adapter and not needing two different top units. Good luck guys!
This is very innovative. Now this can take care of the range and charging anxiety
25$ /month!!! Wow that is impresive.cant wait to hear your interview with them.
I had them for three months, not so great. they dont deliver the full miles as promised and the techs some are clueless, they dont have enough batteries for a big city like LA and its more hassle then its worth.
I strongly believe the $25/month is an investor-subsidized, money-losing teaser rate, and that this will very quickly go the way of bikeshare. Meaning that either the rates will be jacked up to many times the current level, or the company will go out of business.
When each charging visit consumes an hour of labor, and needs to be done by a person with enough physical strength to haul furniture for a moving company, you're probably looking at a true cost of around $100 per visit, at least, which is far, far more than $25/month.
Brilliant idea! Looking forward to seeing you use this system!
I love your videos. You do a great job on your choices of videos. 👍
A large Florida city such as Miami may be a good target market for ChargeUp. Electricity cost is under $0.10 and there’s ample sun for solar recharge. Two sets of batteries minimum are needed so while one is charging an EV, the other discharged pack is getting recharged.
I definitely would love something like ChangeUp on the east cost. That would definitely help push me to make switch to a fully electric vehicle.
AAA should start carrying these on their trucks that deal with battery calls. Great addition for the ev market.
This is an amazing product and service! Thanks Tom!
Yes, this is a charger. Well done!
Keep it up. Maybe it will sink in someday. ;)
Good idea for road side service. I think someone with a Ford F-150 hybrid with a 7.2 kWh power supply system could be a strong competitor.
Great video Tom!
Cool, thanks Tom!
I had this idea the other day. I’m going to definitely start one up as a business
Great review. Very well done -as usual.
Honestly it would make far more sense to take an EV with a big battery, like the F150, and charge the stranded car directly off of that. I wonder if that's a feature we'll eventually be seeing.
And when the F150 goes dead from charging the dead EV??????
That might work in cities, once EV trucks become more plentiful, and not nearly impossible to get.
But, in rural areas, I think a roadside assistance vehicle would need a much bigger battery than any EV truck currently offers. These trucks will probably continue to burn diesel for a long time.
@@johnvincent4048The point is to get the stranded EV enough power to reach the nearest fast charger. Give it 7kwh and it can make it easily, while your F150 still has 90kwh left.
If you can charge the Roadie using solar or wind... Bingo the $25 charge looks very profitable. You could build a franchise based on that.
I have been in, and recently sold my last Towing company a year ago. This sounds like my next venture, and am ready to jump in. I am in the Sacramento CA area. Any direction to move forward would certainly help. Thanks
I could see these in my shop, the local wreckers want to haul you to a charger or home not sit and charge you in a snow storm where they are limited getting to a recovery , im too old to roll in the snow anymore attaching hooks but to plug and sit in a warm truck anytime .
I’m curious how often this happens. This mite be a good side hustle as a driver for that company. I live in Colorado. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a EV on the side of the road
How many roadside EV charges can you get from one fully charged roadside charger?? How long does it take to charge the roadside charger back at home base??? You call and they say, I'm sorry sir it will be 12 hours all of our roadside chargers are being charged.
Hi I like to invest on the charging system I have a roadside service and I like to know more information about it
Excellent video! Just subscribed.
when you get the CCS version, let's see a Setec CCS adapter compatibility test?
Sure
It’s crazy how the big the batteries have to be to charge a car for such a small distance. Technology has a long ways to go
Tesla PLEASE install ventilated seats in the model Y/3,thanks.
Got it: you hitch the little trolley up to your M3/other EV and drive away. No? Isn't it about time there was a standard so that all EVs could tow an extra battery whose charge can be accessed by the BMS, i.e., a towable extra traction battery. Would this be so hard to do? Hyundai/Kia and Ford have now got the EV2Home thing sorted -- maybe this could be their next innovation?
For less than $2,000 you can do the same thing with a big generator and EVSE. Also, a generator will not depreciate at nearly the same rate as the 12k battery pack. I'm willing to bet a service call with a half hour charging session will cost over $150 with the Roadie- so the customer will decide to have their vehicle towed to the nearest charger!!! I can't see why many Roadside companies would invest in one.
WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY A GAS GENERATOR TO CHARGE AN EV????? JUST GO BUY AN ICE VEHICLE!!!!!
@@johnvincent4048 do you understand that this video is about roadside assistance?
Ut will cost more than 150 to get a car towed
@@lilcourtny08
Depends how far the car actually needs to be towed. Most occasions when drivers do run out of power, they run out very close to a charging station. In which case, simply towing the car that last two miles can take less of the truck driver's time than sitting around, waiting for an emergency charge to complete.
2 questions Tom. Since you mentioned it and you seem to know exactly how much it costs you to charge at home can you please give the actual dollar figure of what it costs you? And the second question is what if you lose power for weeks because of a storm, can you use a generator to plug into to charge the car?
The cost to charge at home depends on your home electricity rate. I pay $0.15 per kWh and to fully recharge my Tesla Model 3 (if the battery was completely dead which never happens) would be about $12.00. Yes, you can charge your EV off of a generator.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney see now someone else said absolutely not because the spikes in a portable generator can cause damage to the computer in the car. So you're saying that your electric bill has only went up about $50 per month?
@@RDRUclips54 Yes, it costs me about $500/year to drive 15,000 miles. I personally charged EVs from a portable generator.
The thing is if it's a very small and weak generator it might not deliver enough power and the power might fluctuate too much and the car won't accept it. But you certainly can charge an EV off of most portable generators - at least the good ones that deliver "clean power".
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney wow that's pretty good... What do you look for in a Generator to make sure it delivers clean power?
Any price for this product sparkcharge package 3 14kwh?
For the $25 subscription fee for ChargeUp, do they charge the vehicle all the way to 100%? Or to 80%? Or do they just give you 15 or 20 miles and that's it for that ChargeUp service call?
I'm going to find out more from SparkCharge soon with an interview. From what I understand, They give you a certain amount of miles for the $25/month fee. I don't know the exact amount, but it's way more than 15-20 miles. I thought I heard it was 50-miles twice a week, so 100 miles a week, but I will get that all confirmed soon.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Hi Tom, great review . tks. Did you managed to get the update of how much charge they provide forn$25/month? Or how they managed to price it so low.
The more I think about the SparkCharge service, the more I think their entire business model just doesn't make sense. They have to pay somebody to drive to your vehicle, unload the equipment, wait for the car to charge, load the equipment back up, and drive away. When they do drive away, their battery pack is depleted, so unless they have additional battery packs in their car (which would require that their "car" actually be a pickup truck or cargo van for them all to fit), they'd have to drive back to their home base to pick up a fresh battery back before they can service another customer. Add it all up, you're looking at around an hour of labor - per charging visit - not including the cost of operating the vehicle to carry the Roadie unit, the Roadie units themselves, electricity, or rent for the "home base" where the Roadie units are stored and charged. And all that to deliver *just* 10 kWh to the customer's car.
Worse, because the Roadie units are big and heavy, you need a strong person to be able to load and unload them several times throughout a day, day after day after day. For example, a person whose arm muscles get sore after a couple of charging visits to the point where they can't work anymore for a few days, is probably not suitable for the job. This means SparkCharge would have to essentially compete with professional moving companies for labor, which, in turn, means that the labor is going to cost them far more than minimum wage - especially in a tight labor market where even WalMart cashiers make now more than minimum wage.
If the end goal here is to offer a service to allow somebody who lacks home charging to charge their car without needing to spend any time, it seems to me like you could provide the service more efficiently by simply having the employee borrow the car keys, drive the customer's car to the nearest EVGo/Electrify America, charge it up, and drive the car back. The total labor cost between this service and the SparkCharge service might be similar, but at least my hypothetical service leaves the customer with 80% battery rather than 30%, when it's all done.
However, if you think about it a bit more, really, neither of these services make sense because the target customer could also achieve their end goal (keep energy in their car without spending time) for far less money by simply buying a hybrid and filling it up at gas stations. Ultimately, if you want people to buy EVs, they need to have charging either at home, or at places they frequently visit. No labor-intensive mobile-charging service is going to be able to work its way around this.
Do they have any stock at this point?
Hi I live now back in Colo and it seems to be land of Tesla these days Love to make this happen here But am an idiot about Electrics
but know the car industry Rental car company's first to mind... Any ideas?? An I am a Subscriber
Thanks, Tom.
Is there a downside, technically speaking, to completely draining your high voltage battery? Will there be long term effects?
It's not great - but it's also not really that bad as long as you recharge the vehicle relatively quickly. It is bad if you deplete the battery and then let it sit for many hours without recharging it.
How does the Roadie itself get charged and how fast can it be charged?
It plugs into a 120-v outlet and takes a few hours. I'm going to go over that in the next video.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Perhaps they should add a Level 2 connector so it can charge faster
Smart ,very smart …
I think 50 kW should be rate. Plans to increase? Thanks!
20 kW for roadside assistance adds 15 miles of range in 20-minutes. It takes longer than 20-minutes to hook up a car to a tow truck. 15 miles should get the owner home or to the charging station that they fell short of.
Thanks for the response, Tom. I’ve never run out of gas (or charge) so I thought a tow truck would just add a gallon of gasoline and not tow, but I get your point about towing for an EV. I guess 50 amps is easier to deliver than 100 amps. 10 minutes at 20 kW may be enough, too.
Tesla road side assistance service already have this built into their vans. AAA has this as well.
I just contacted this company and they can't provide me a solution for my Wrangler 4xe. They said they only offer Level 3 DC charging. Shouldn't it be compatible with all J-1772 ports? No level 2?
Not really. -Level 2 takes too long to charge. All full EVs come with DC fast charging, only plug in hybrids do not and they can just run on gas - no real need to charge to get home.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Thanks for the info. Been doing some research since I posted and I guess I lack the 6th & 7th DC connector pins that are underneath the 5 connectors of a J1772.
Yeah level 2 = 1.5 hours for me if completely drained.
What's the voltage of the battery?
Tom your in NJ wanted to speak with you
The size of the system won’t allow the $25/mo service to charge a dead battery fully.
Electrify America! Send Tom a charger so he can review it, Yesterday!
I've been asking. I don't think they have any yet.
They claim that they are sold out. The ID 4 has been out, in the states, for at least five months. I am interested in buying their charger, but not until you review it.
Why, oh why didn’t the truck just pull up right next to the Tesla and plug it in without taking the charger out the bed of the truck?
If you have to send some out to your car to charge it, it may be just as expensive to have your car towed to the nearest charger, or back to the tow truck driver’s shop.
Perhaps, but it will be much faster to just pull up and plug in for 20 minutes or so. The tow truck driver probably wouldn't even have the car hooked up and moving yet.
What licenses do you need to have for this buisness
Shame. I live in Ma where the company is from so I thought for sure they would have it here but nope just LA San Fran and Dallas. 😔
They just launched ChargeUP. They will be adding a bunch of additional markets soon.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney Well when they come here for 25 bucks a month I will join.
I bought I Tesla and I live in an apartment complex but I don’t bother to ask permission to change my electric car up I just did it anyway I just ran two (100) 50 foot 240 volts from my dryer outlet in my laundry room out my living room to my car
Bring mobile charging unit with an ICE-powered car is not logical and fundamentally wrong. It will eliminate zero-direct emissions of an EV vehicle in regular use. On the other hand, emergency use is very helpful.
I hope EV adoption gets so common that I won't have to ask if they have this service, it will just be expected. That and I hope more charging stations pop up with public level 1 free charging and level 2 for free or a nominal fee become ubiquitous.
In light of the fact that there are so many Tesla’s in use in North America, why is this system not available with a Tesla connector? I understand that an adapter is available, but to build a system that requires an adapter to be of use to such a massive customer base makes no sense.
Because nobody else is allowed to make a system that uses the Tesla connector - and please don't say "Tesla opened all of its patents for free use" because that's NOT the case. :)
Every Tesla comes with a J1772 adapter so user should have one. Surely the operator could bring a spare one to the Tesla needing a charge. I consider this a mute point.
@@johnpoldo8817 These are DC fast chargers, they don't use the J1772, so the supplied Tesla adapter won't work. You'd need to buy the $450 Tesla-CHAdeMO adapter. The SparkCharge operator always has the Tesla-CHAdeMO adapter on the truck.
@@StateOfChargeWithTomMoloughney My mistake, the J1772 is AC only. I’m so spoiled with the Tesla connector doing both AC/DC. CHAdeMO looks very large so I wonder if CCS is better, assuming a CCS to Tesla adapter is available.
It's a good idea but if you own an EV you should be paying more attention. Don't let your charge get below 10%. This waycif you get to a charging spot, say Electrify America, and their not working you may have enough range to get to another charging station. For Tesla owners this isn't a big deal. In the near future try to make friends with Ford Lightning, Ioniq 5 and EV6 owners. Those vehicles have the ability to charge other EVs. 😛
Uh, I've seen something similar in England. I don't think this is new. Their roadside assistance vans use them.
There are similar systems, but this was the first DC fast-charge system that uses modular battery architecture like this.
no need for this battery based solution, you can just make a battery with stuff lying around in your vehicle like Mr White showed in his science documentary ...
I’m not seeing the need here. Eventually chargers will just be everywhere so running out will never happen. Does look like nicely engineered product though.
Gas stations are everywhere and people run out of gas all the time. :)
I’m totally seeing the need here. The transition is a massive and lengthy undertaking. Not only is this great during the transition even when it’s 100% whenever that may be there’s still a need for this as Tom said people still run out of gas all the time. I think this is huge!
Depends on what you mean by “Eventually”; besides, as Tom is saying, no matter how available chargers are, some people will run out of charge (rural secondary roads, airport parking lots, ….).
The new Ioniq 5 can charge another car if it runs out of charge.
Yes, it can, but at a much slower rate. But unless you have a friend that drives one and happens to be available AND close to you when you need a boost, it's not helpful.
I want 15 kWh charger in india
their service sucks, they take too long, sometimes dont show up, and many times dont deliver full charge as promised. Not worth the headache.
Blah. Niche thing, not a profitable company and probably never will be. The charge service will become several times more expensive in time.
Tesla cars have horrible range and people are always running out, so this is good.
😂😂
@@irfanhusein1445 It's true .... don't cry.
@@jimcmf2 I’ve never experienced running out of charge on my Tesla 3 or my Mach E, however I have run out of gas on my ICE vehicle a few times in my lifetime. I’m sure there are many instances of BEV’s running out of charge but I don’t think it’s very common as you suggest.
@@irfanhusein1445 Anybody who runs out of gas or battery juice (unless it is a Tesla) is a very poor planner.
@@jimcmf2 Clearly we’re dealing with an a**hole
Lmao...
Why don't you see electric vehicles in Alaska?....
Here, let me answer that for you because it's too fckng cold and the batteries don't last for sht...
Since i live in an apartment and not a house, I'll just buy these roadie batteries and charge my car when im not using it. My parking spot is next to my apartment, I would just need to make sure I have good aim with my sniper every time I see some shady thug fella near my batteries and cars so he doesn't tale anything. I am from Los Angeles, homeless people steal stuff without even a need for it.