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it’s why we have API showing occupancy in near-real time. It’s visible on the car map usually or phone app).

I also coded a little dashboard showing the stations occupancy near me before buying and honestly I saw the same pattern than a classic station (= loaded during home/office travel)

Of course, home is far better… even better if you have solar panels and batteries.

But I wanted to share my experience because I was previously thinking “I need a home charge point to make it viable”. Now? Not so much :-)

It’s a station that provide 2 x 160kW and 2 x 320kW charge points for a price slightly above the price of home electricity. Cost me ~10€ to charge from <30% to 90% (-45kW)

Quite classic here (we don’t call them supercharger). I see around 150 stations in the 50km range around me with at least one 100kW charge point. So I wouldn’t call it anecdotal as it’s how people in appartement are doing it too around me.

Charging at home would cost me obviously less… if I had no installation cost and need to require authorization to the others owners, etc… But the difference is small. Station is at 0.25€/kWh while home price is 0.27€ during peak hours and 0.20€ the other hours. If we had solar at home, home would win easily of course.

Regarding the charging rate, not really as the car balance the battery by rotating them automatically to have cells pack aging globally at the same rate (the car have a little more than annouced to have some margin in the cycle of the battery… it’s quite clever). And they also apply proper heat control during the charge. So the battery don’t degrade that much.

Litte remarks regarding EV and not having a point of charge at home.

I have an EV but don’t own a house to charge it. Neither have a charging point on my appartement parking or my office (too complex/expensive to install). So I delayed buying an EV during few years. But I did the switch last year and don’t regret it at all.

The solution?

I found a charging station with good price at 7km of my place.

When I come back from office and I’m starting to be below 30% battery remaining, I go there and charge up to 90% during ~30 min.

I read a book on my tablet while waiting in the car with the music and air conditioning (as it quite hot currently) while charging at approx 80/90 45 kW/h… A nice break before going home to be honest ^^

I really handle the EV like a classic combustion engine car but with a small tank. Instead of having 800km of autonomy, i have 400~450km.

The key is to have a reliable and cheap charging station near your daily travel. Best being having it at home but it’s definitely not mandatory.

I’m currently at an average of 4.02€ for 100km driven and my charging station doesn’t require monthly fee. Just register an account, associate your car once and now it’s plug and charge.

I share your view regarding the grid, you need to prepare it properly and good charging station is the first step.

Edit: Fixed the amount I usually charge: it’s more around 45kW per charge.

Yes they are expensive but the fact that you have an official (and supported) upgrade path possible for my little printer bought more than a decade ago is really recommendable. And I love mounting it myself. You learn a lot about the product during this process.

ha yes, it’s retro in my native tongue but reverse in English. Well, I keep it because i find this mistake funny :)

yeah, a lot of PR effort for Bambu while the reality is slightly different.

An example: they say: we didn’t patch the security hole (the user agent “chech”) because the user experience would have been affected blablabla…

Well, they introduced this security hole on linux BECAUSE they deployed the new mandatory network “plugin” (that you are forced to use because: it’s automatically installed and it’s mandatory to print even locally) without providing a working solution for all their linux customers when deploying it.

Yes! They didn’t implement a real authentication solution for their own linux implementation AND they didn’t answer to their linux customers who had the software broken for MONTHS.

And them providing this user agent hack solution months later allowed anybody to understand how it worked without retro engineering their network plugin (something the article forgot to mention but it was the main attack vector of bambu against the developer threateninghim to go to federal jail, something they also forgot to mention).

Great user experience mindset here. Breaking their printer to introduce a mandatory connectivity plugin (reminder: linux is officially supported on the marketing pages) and threatening those who try to fix it using just what the license allows them to do.

I suspect the DDOS attack they had on their cloud service is more linked to their change of mind regarding this mandatory network plugin.

It could be all the linux client trying to download their network plugin but failing and retrying in loop. That wouldn’t surprise me following the user agent choice.

Or people unhappy. After all, they changed the terms of the contract after users bought the printer. Really a Dark Vader style of user experience here!

If you want to avoid this kind of amateurish/parasitic behavior, buy the original: Prusa.

I’ve one printer from them since many years that I upgrade each few years. Currently, I’m waiting for a sale for the upgrade kit to the Core+