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You have a 180KWh battery that only takes 60KW? What are you driving? That's a weird configuration.

Most of that time could well be the last ~20%

My car takes 240KW (It still feels insane to be delivering that much power) and 10-80% (56KWh) is about 15 minutes and 80-100% is another 15-20 minutes

Mine is the same.

That's why I find a car that only accepts 60kW and charges for 3 hours to be odd. Even if I limited my car to only 60kW, it'd take about 1 hour and 4 minutes to get 80% and another 20 minutes for the remaining 20%. So around 1 1/2 hours

(edit: fixing numbers)

Mine takes around an hour and a half from zero to 80% and just over an hour the rest of the way. In general, I find it rather unpleasant when the last 20% takes almost as long as the preceding 80%. I usually only charge to just above 90% though because going above disables features.

I usually charge from less than 10% to near 90%. Lower than 10 and the motors reduce output, higher than 93 and regenerative braking shuts off

2025 Subaru Solterra. It's essentially the same as the 2022 model, and I juust managed to miss the new 2026 model that is better at everything except physical controls

Oh wow. I didn't know Subaru made EVs... and I can see why. That's horrible.

It's really strange how much these older manufacturers struggle to make a good EV.

This was one of Toyota's first BEVs (Subaru's EVs are all based on Toyota). It keeps trying to pretend to be an ICE vehicle and that pisses me off. (forward creep, no one-pedal driving, accelerator constantly modifies or ignores my input...) If it weren't a lease, I would pull it apart and hack the control units.

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