I have nothing against CCS per se...just that when I'm on a long road trip, I would like to easily find a working CCS charger. Typically, you have to drive further off the interstates to find a CCS charger and even then, you're lucky if there's more than 1 or 2 available. Add to that, there's at least a half dozen different possible CCS providers. On top of that, it's a crap shoot if the 1 or 2 CCS chargers you find are even working.
Having taken my Model Y from the Bay Area to the Palm Springs area as well as up to Seattle, WA, the Tesla Supercharger network has huge advantages. They're within a couple of miles of an interstate exit. There's on average 9+ chargers at any location. There's no fiddling with different apps or RFID cards, and the built-in Navigation makes it easy to plan your stops and I even had it reroute me on my Seattle trip when the original charging station it wanted me to stop at was full.
CCS needs a few things:
1. A larger number of chargers at each CCS location
2. More CCS charging locations close to interstates
3. A unified/simpler payment/authorization system
Until then, I'll use CCS locally on my Energica and Bolt when needed but for any kind of long road trip, I will always take my Tesla.
It depends on where. Between my house here in Reno and Auburn, there are more CCS chargers than I can count. Almost every exit has several, even a free one at the Donner Rest Area (but east bound isn't working). Take a look at Plugshare.
My biggest complaints about CCS is how they are all grouped together in some area and none at all in other areas. Also, the fact that when they break, they are not fixed--at least not for many months or longer.
In the area of CA where you live, you can go quite a ways in any direction and find CCS. Until you get way up north, then nothing (Such as SusanVille). Highway 395 certainly needs a lot more places to charge. And prime locations, such as Lake Topaz, ONLY have Tesla Superchargers. The only one NOT needed is there. Teslas have enough range to skip that location, while some others that need CCS have nothing until Bridgeport going south. And cannot even go that far. Such as with my SS9.
Anyway, a short range EV that only has J-1772 will be fine with me. As long as it can do the 99 miles to get to Auburn from here.
Since I have owned my Tesla M3, in 2018, I have charged it on the road two times. Both were overnight trips to the west bay. One was to buy my Enegica in Mt. View.
Anyway, unless things change, I think my Reno EV could end up being another Tesla, perhaps a Model Y. Perhaps the only AWD I find. OTOH, I am in no big hurry.
-Don- Reno, NV
