You do not have to purchase a Porsche Taycan to get years of free charging. Audi has revealed that 2022 E-Tron GT patrons will get three years of free DC quick charging (by way of VW’s Electrify America, in fact) like their Taycan-owning counterparts. If you’ll find the fitting stations, you possibly can cost your electrical sports activities sedan from 5 p.c to 80 p.c in 22 minutes for free of charge. You won’t pay a factor for a state-to-state journey or an prolonged backroad jaunt, in different phrases.
This could possibly be essential when the E-Tron GT’s estimated vary tops out at 238 miles. You is likely to be extra doubtless to purchase the EV if the worth of an prolonged journey is a non-issue There’s additionally a transparent aggressive motivation — Tesla has often revived free Supercharging as an incentive to purchase its automobiles, and Audi would possibly lose enterprise if it insists on paid battery top-ups.
The problem, as earlier than, is protection. Electrify America expects to have 800 U.S. stations by the top of 2021, however Tesla already had over 908 Supercharger stations within the nation as of March 2020. Free charging won’t matter a lot if there aren’t sufficient stations alongside your deliberate routes. Audi’s freebie would possibly solely attain its full potential as soon as protection is really ubiquitous.
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