How To Charge An Electric Car: EV Charging Explained – DrivingElectric

In the first of a new series of explainer videos, DrivingElectric's Grace Webb helps you get to grips with the basic of electric-car ownership. First up is charging – how do you find charging points? Are there different types of connectors? How do you use the stations and pay for charging? Watch this video for all the answers...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Finding a charging point
00:35 - Connector types
01:55 - Destination charging
02:40 - Starting, stopping and paying for charging

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[marioseoul]

Cool charging station! Good to see more of these rest area-style locations appear. Is there more than one in the UK? I went to the futuristic Hyundai charging station in eastern Seoul twice when I lived there. Expensive charging there, but an excellent local café (Terarosa) upstairs. Now I'm back in the US and don't have a car and don't get around much these days, but I'm not familiar with any integrated stations. But it's a huge country, so I'm sure there must be ;-) I think Starbucks was going to partner with one of the charging systems here for a Seattle-Denver route.

[davidbenson]

excellent and most informative! Thak you.

[ajtame]

Subbed purely because you had a good go at that Japanese translation

[ecopennylife]

They really need to standardise on one plug type, imagine trying to charge and the charger available is the wrong type 😱

[Mike-qufp]

need one about charging at home + getting a charger installed

[Hacker]

Has the video not been graded properly by any chance? 🤨

[lemer]

Is the video a bit too dark for anyone else?

[mooremob]

You should have explained why stopping at 80%!
To charge from 80% to 100% the BMS on the car throttles the charge so it doesn't overheat the battery.
So charging time can add another 45mins to 1hr.
PHEVs should never charge at a rapid charger only overnight charging for them, the BMS in PHEVs is extremely slow.
Oh by the way BEV will only charge to a given rate not what the charging port says as example the charging port can deliver 120kW
The car BMS might have a maximum of 85kw, you will only charge to 85kW or less.

[georgewalker]

Well you just made the type 2 AC charging sound more complicated than need be. What a Horlicks of a video.

[fernandeztakeshi]

This charging station is going to popularize drinking tea, if it hasn't already