Leaving maintenance of public chargers to locals is a disaster. For example, Chargepoint app still lists chargers that were torn out months ago. That makes me doubt anything I see on the app.

@fjalics

8 ай бұрын

The app should show last 5 successful charges.

@neilfromclearwaterfl81

8 ай бұрын

It shows them as In Use (Blue Icon), Available (Green Icon), Faulting (Red) or No Status (Gray). If they were torn out the app shows them as at least reporting No Status (Gray). Right now the Charge Point App currently shows a few stations within 5 miles of my home with Gray Icons reporting No Status. I rarely charge at public chargers except perhaps the free stations at work, the library or airport. Never bothered driving to a Charge Point station that showed In Use, Faulting or No Status either as that's pointless. Makes me wonder though since they have to help lobby local jurisdictions to allow chargers to be set up if the variance in local regulations creates inconsistencies based on where your located. Here in the communities surrounding Tampa its been pretty good in my limited use as one who may only end up charging at a public charger once a every year or so. Best!

Thanks for stopping by Sandy, we are happy to talk EV charging anytime!

@charlesnwosu6887

8 ай бұрын

What's going on with your stock price?! Will you be filing chapter 11 soon?!

@wineberryred

8 ай бұрын

Will ChargePoint be adding Plug and Charge in the near future?

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Same here!

Chargepoint charger at my local grocery store is broken more than it’s ever running. They fix it after 6 months and then it breaks within a month.

@fjalics

8 ай бұрын

More Chargepoint operators need to buy the service plan.

@neilfromclearwaterfl81

8 ай бұрын

We had a breakage issue at work with the Charge Point Stations however maintenance kept the spare cables and balances in stock to deal with that expeditiously. Biggest cause of breakage was people not parking so that the charge port of the vehicle was close enough to the station and then pulling the cable past its limit until it broke. On the security video you could see the extreme effort people put into trying to force the cable to reach instead of moving their vehicle a few inches. Others wouldn't even park in the empty space in front of the pedestal hooking other vehicles with the cable as they routed it through an adjacent parking space so it would get ripped out when the other vehicle drove away or someone who didn't see the cable fell over it and ripped it loose. After instituting a three strikes and your out policy for ignoring warnings for doing that along with charging for the damages those incidents went down. The Charge Point logs are clear enough spelling out who was charging at the time which along with security camera recordings made it quick and easy to verify what happened and who did it. Users get multiple reminders to disconnect their vehicles when their charging session is complete and Management gets real time alerts about abusers who don't disconnect within 30 minutes of their charging session having completed. Of course if the manager of the Grocery Store is lax or simply Anti-EV they won't be very quick to have the repairs done or deal with the abusers who are vandalizing the Charge Points. Bottom line is that it is most often a problem with people and not the equipment especially when its a Charge Point station. Best!

@S3XYdriver

8 ай бұрын

ChargePoint (among others) is mostly hands off after a charger is installed. They don’t monitor stations whatsoever. It’s up to the shop or location owner to notify them of maintenance. This is absolutely the wrong business model and is why 3rd party charging is so inconsistent

@fjalics

8 ай бұрын

@@S3XYdriver I'm not sure you are right. I think some of their problems stem from people not paying for service, then delaying when the equipment fails, but whatever. It's trivial to figure out that a charger which is regularly used is down. It stops charging successfully. Their software should recognize that, and communicate that clearly to users of their network. It's not like it's hard to reset. Charge.

@S3XYdriver

8 ай бұрын

@@fjalics that’s my point exactly, they need more direct control over their product! I work in the field, this is how it is with the majority of their chargers. They pretty much ignore them once installed. Edited my original comment, better inline with reality after I calmed down from my rant 😅

I'd like to see Chargepoint be more active in managing their installations. It may be 'sold' to whomever to run, but it looks bad on that group and on Chargepoint for these to be down so much. Charepoint staying actively involved in the uptime matters.

@naps3386

8 ай бұрын

I agree. My local grocery store is down for 6 months, up for a month, down for 6 months. We don’t have many EV’s around so their system isn’t great.

@sasor098

8 ай бұрын

thankfully that is comming (i heard on out of spec) where chargepoint will rent a city/shop/whatever chargers and they will themself handle everything on the backend. be it service, permitting, payment and more, so it's actually operational more than not

@sp1nrx

8 ай бұрын

There's a ChargePoint station near me that's also one of the closest stations near LAX. That station is owned by the gas station it is located at but it has been problematic for *years*. I think it would be embarrassing to be placing your name (ChargePoint) on such a primary location that's unreliable.

He said, its not our charger it's your charger. The local companies who are those people who own those chargers are not motivated to fix the chargers or quickly anyway. So chargepoint is betting their success on individuals who are not as motivated to keep them running. So chargepoint needs to make more robust chargers that might be able to fix themselves with over the air service.

@backwoodsbungalow9674

8 ай бұрын

18:19 😱

@gnoxycat

8 ай бұрын

@@backwoodsbungalow9674 Yea, that will give me confidence in their reliability. Tesla is now a monopoly for level3 charging.

ChargePoint in my neighborhood (The Virginia science Museum) is unable to give me any information when the ChargePoint chargers will be back in service. It's been over 7 months now.

Thank you! Even though I live outside Boston, its awesome to see ChargePoint's DC fast charging stations pop up in Maine along the 95 belt - much needed! Kudos!

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

It would be super helpful for long videos such as this if timestamps with subject headings were provided.

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Noted

One simple tip for range anxiety I’m always reminding my wife, you can get almost anywhere if you slow down enough. Having the Leaf for ten years taught us both how to drive economically, at times with the heater off 😂 on 60 mile drives home from the city with last 10 miles at 15mph

I’ve generally had good experiences at the ChargePoint units I’ve used (mostly L2). The fast chargers are fine as 62 kW units, and would be suitable for restaurants or grocery stores, if there were more units at one place.

I find the comments here interesting. I have only ever encountered 1 out of service Chargepoint charger, it actually looks like it was installed but never turned on. The thing I find most disturbing is the wide range of pricing (again, set by the owners, not Chargepoint), anywhere from free to $40/hr..

I'm 45 in the UK. I have no EV tech skills but by god I wish I could work for a company like this.

@DunkBoi

8 ай бұрын

ChargePoint has a UK team and office and that team is killer! Don't need much EV skills depending on what you're doing.

@adroper62

8 ай бұрын

I have family members working for them. This company is a proverbial "s" show uncommitted to their customers, users, and employees.

But also WHERE ARE THE NACS CHARGERS GUYS

@PygKLB

8 ай бұрын

@20:45-Looks like they were using a Tesla cable from a V2 charger, judging by the metal collar on the cable at the plug. Hope ChargePoint will develop liquid-cooled cables for their fast chargers.

AWESOME. THANKS FOR VIDEO!

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

You bet!

🤗 WATCHING WITH MY MORNING COFFEE ☕️,GREAT TO SANDY,MEET MICHAEL ,HOSSEIN AND SEE WHAT IS 🆕 …THANKS MUNRO TEAM 💚💚💚

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Good morning and thanks!

@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461

8 ай бұрын

WE CONGRATULATE 👏👏👏 CHARGEPOINT …FOR ALL THE PROGRESS,MOSTLY BEHIND THE SCENES💚💚💚

I'll need to watch the episode, but saw the ball drop test on the structure and I remember I read about it in an industry standard. Kinda fun to see it happen on KZread lol

Extremely informative, these are the podcasts I like boots on the ground. See what I wan to know, thank you. Guyes. Kindness is always free the Highlander.

Cheers for that. Very interesting.

My answer to statement that no conventional car goes 700 miles: My Škoda Rapid 1.6 TDI (it's VW Golf size car, which is based on VW Polo platform) does 800 - 900 miles in one tank, which is around 55 litres. Yes, I use aircon, radio and lights. It's one of the best thigs not to think where and when will I need to fill up my fuel tank. Another think which everybody forgets to mention, that long range for electric cars is not so important when you do longer highway miles but for multi-stop journeys without hassle e.g. day trips to national parks or beauty spots, visiting friends who live 120 miles away and then getting home in the same day and etc.

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

Yeah my main problem is the nearest DC charger is 75+ miles from my family. No where to plug in when I get there. Until there is one in every U.S. town I can't recommend an EV to most people

@MrAdopado

8 ай бұрын

@@thedopplereffect00 There's electricity to every home in every town. Using a mobile charge point (like Telsa's UMC) you can plug in anywhere. If I have the option of plugging in overnight I can live without a Supercharger nearby. I certainly don't need a Supercharger (or other rapid charger) near to my home location ... I need it 100+ miles on my route to wherever I'm heading.

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

@@MrAdopado actually that is not true. Some homes do NOT have outlets outside. And if you are visiting friends they probably don't have an outlet that can pull 12 amps without tripping a breaker. Not too mention a majority of hotels have no charging, broken chargers, or gas cars simply blocking them

@MrAdopado

8 ай бұрын

@@thedopplereffect00 You replied to my post by saying "actually that's not true". You then spoke about outside outlets that had nothing to do with my post. Perhaps you missunderstood my comment. I don't know where you live but I can charge off a normal electrical socket from any house. The mobile connector pulls 10amps (at 230v) and standard house sockets are rated for 13amps. I have put a cable out of a window if I've needed to! (I'm in the UK and I do realise that there tends to be more variability of electrical socket capabilities in the States.)

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

@@MrAdopado I'm telling you from real world experience you can't just find an outlet anywhere you want. You can't just go to some stranger's house and ask them to put a cord through their bedroom window. It's not practical. It's like going door to door and asking people if you can have some gasoline out of their lawn mower to drive your car.

Love the intro music! 🔥🔥🔥

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

Chargepoint has been pretty solid since 2012 or so and our go-to RELIABLE EVSE since the days of our old 2011 Leaf

For some reason I see the header for this video as: ChargePoint's Inoperability Laboratory! Tricks of the mind I guess.

Thanks for Opening A Wonderful World.

Lots of confusion here. The ChargePoint engineer said "OTA" and he was talking about getting software upgrades out to the chargers. But, Sandy/Munro took that to mean "OTA" from a vehicle's standpoint. Lots of miscommunication between an engineer with a lot of know how, and an arm-chair charging enthusiast. 😁

Two BIG QUESTIONS were not addressed: 1) Uptime / reliability and the time out of service before repairs are completed. 2) Cost. Since they are selling "gas pumps" to businesses and homeowners the cost of buying the "gas pump" (i.e. Charge Point) is quite important. Does Charge Point provide the installation and arrange for the power (wiring transformers, etc.) as a "turnkey" service, or the buyer have to find and price these services? If CP does this, what is the average "installed cost"? The nice ChargePoint Express 250 CPE250 @ 25:07 is $52,000.00 (plus installation, connection and likely additional electrical capacity upgrade charges. The "Home" units are ~ $600 (plus installation and wiring), on their website. FYI Tesla's home charger is ~ $200 less. The question is how many businesses, like liquor stores and "Quikie Marts" (not counting "Virtue Signalers") can afford the ~$ 60 k to install something which has a very long, slow payback? Not to mention possible land acquisition, zoning changes, use permits, etc..

Do they have runtime diagnostics? IE: SOP (System Operating Properly) diag loops that detect a subsystem "soft" or "hard" failure? These things need 99.999% uptime and when a failure occurs they need to phone home and roll a truck with the correct replacement part already in hand. I'm surprised they do not have an integrated heat pump. Anything outdoors needs to keep things, even if they are MILSPEC operating in a controlled range. I suppose for extreme environments the assumption/mandate could be to have enclosed charge stations with the environmentals handled by the building. This would be especially true if the user has to be comfortable for the long charge period.

Thank you… This was exactly what I was hoping for. Need Munro’s assistance, expertise and celebrity to improve the US charging infrastructure.

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I wonder if Cory will be doing a tear down of the new lucid in conjunction with the Monroe team

@watermaj

8 ай бұрын

Munro has already done it, Cory is now a Lucid employee

Sandy, you need to tell us what happened with Cory. Why leave to go to Lucid? Going from a great company to a deadman walking company! Crazy it’s like when Lewis and Martin broke up! It’s sad.

@user-pk5ek1uz8o

8 ай бұрын

Naah his life his choice why sad ?

@Joe-lb8qn

8 ай бұрын

Heres a deal for you Marvel. You can join Nikola. We'll pay you $5M joining fee and $2m a year. Whats the downside? It all goes to crap and you walk away after 2 years with close on $10M? That I presume is why Corey left. Obvs I have no idea of the numbers but that I am sure is the principle. And Lucid have deep pockets via their funders he could be set for life after 2 or 3 years..

Charge point in Northern California is terrible, rarely works. Currently we need more reliable charges installed. Hopefully charge point will get it together .

@Deetroiter

4 ай бұрын

And to think they're based out of Campbell in Silicon Valley! Terrible service, indeed!

Kind strange they put the Tesla nameplate on the NACS cable...maybe it was easier to just get the cables from Tesla. The water cooling internals of the chargers were really cool to see and the engineer giving the tour was excellent.

As these NACS plugs start to come into the market from other OEMs, I would like to see Tesla add them as nav options in the car. Essentially so you can tell the car to be aware of (for auto-nav while driving) either only Tesla-NACs or anyone's NACS.

@buzzlightyear3461

8 ай бұрын

What would Tesla go out of their way to spot a modular plug on a non-tesla site?

@JT_771

8 ай бұрын

@@buzzlightyear3461 Good form, doing so.

@kd7lxl

8 ай бұрын

Tesla navigation has included EVgo NACS chargers for years.

@JT_771

8 ай бұрын

@@kd7lxl Nice; thanks!

(in Brazil) My Jeep Compass diesel has a 60l tank and can easily go 600+ miles ( 960km ) going (slightly) above speed limits (~75mph). It can certainly get to 700mi if driven slightly below speed limits (~65mph). A couple times a year a do a trip that is over 500mi doesn't cross my mind to stop for fuel... I was seriously considering a BEV, but on the aforementioned trip there is only on charging stop along the way with 2 stalls... That is it... If they are out, or have a big line of people waiting, it's game over... Unfortunately BEV plans will have to wait for charging station....

Once they sell the infrasfructure they have no incentive to maintain it.

@sillystuff6247

8 ай бұрын

*Wrong* First, ChargePoint offers a paid maintenance service. Second, charger owners make a profit from *working* chargers. Third, charger owners, such as hotels & malls, attract more customers with onsite EV chargers as an amenity.

ChargePoint needs to figure something out. Currently trading at 1/5 their original value and down 20x their peak value. Their business model hasn't been successful and they are bleeding money with no signs of turning things around. They just sold $232 million worth of stock with how bad things are going.

@privettoli

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good time to buy their stock 😂

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

They didn't give the uniparty enough stock tips

Retailers purchase/lease your chargers, then pay for them by taxing the electrons themselves. Sounds expensive and likely to not be properly maintained in lower economic areas.

I think large range numbers are only important when you are towing since range drops by about 50% during towing.

I have gone through 2 other different EVSE units before I finally bought the ChargePoint Flex home unit. The others can't even compare! They are like the Apple iPhone for EVSE!

My ID.4 has received more than one OTA update, is that missing in the US?

Diesel cars have gone 700-800 miles on a standard tank.

ChargePoint doesn’t care. They just offload to the site host and they couldn’t care less if their units work afterwards (surprise, a lot of them don’t)

It struck me when they were talking about ‘range anxiety’ about how no one could possibly need 700 miles of range. And Sandy then said he was astonished at the high price of charging in California. So, what if an extra long range could enable you to charge at your destination point at a much lower cost than a fast charger? Avoiding the whole public network via a long range battery could be attractive to some folks.

Wish sandy would ask if they plan on moving all critical components towards the top of the cabinet like Tesla has done

It is interesting that charge point talks about customer experience. They are so bad I avoid using them. It is just a crapshoot what you will get. Broken stations everywhere. Evgo and Electrify America seem better to me though no one holds a candle to Tesla's network.

@TimLF

8 ай бұрын

This, but when there is no Tesla option a free 50kw flo is nice.

The Chief Revenue Officer should wear dark shirts.

at this rate, future chargers will be generally cables connected to batteries. the AC-DC equipment is getting unwieldy, expensive and does not look too reliable. there are also reports that the some grids can't support new charging stations unless upgraded with new equipment like (transformers, cables, etc.)

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

Batteries make a lot of sense for remote, rarely used stations. They can trickle charge up to 100kWh and could support several cars a day still.

@zodiacfml

8 ай бұрын

​@@thedopplereffect00 yeah, just one of the many good reasons for battery based charging stations.

Around 12:25 - In 2½ years of EV driving, with a range of about 150 miles, we've never been close to having range anxiety. Our BEV already has a comparable range to our previous fossil cars, and a longer range than some of them. Range anxiety with gasoline fuelled cars and bikes only ever happened with me twice in over 40 years of driving. On both occasions that was because of filling stations being sold out of fuel. Electricity suppliers almost never run out of electricity, but garages often have problems. Before annyone asks, gloatingly 'What happens during power outages?' the answer is that we cannot recharge. But fuel pumps don't work without electricity either.

One of the problems with ChargePoint’s business model is when the charger malfunctions, they don’t care. It’s up to the operator to get it fixed. Often, you don’t know how to reach he operator. I’ve had this bad customer experience.

I stopped listening after three minutes. Here that I heard. 1. Chargepoint has been around 15 years. 2. We knew when electric vehicles started to come about people would need to have a network. He follows that second point up with a wide area ability to recharge and even do it on long vacations. I consider all those points lies. I think they didn't know 15 years ago that it would need to be a wide area network of charging stations. It is a sparse, narrow arrangement currently. It started as an uncommon spot availability. Sandy's up front statement of second largest infrastructure is after 15 years a mere drop of water compared to Tesla's charging network which is still young by any point of view and now global. Additionally many commenters are noting how bad the Chargepoint network is for various reasons. Here's what I don't understand. Why is Sandy Munro standing there listening to these lies instead of stopping the interview at 3:00 and walking away? Is he really going to let this hired liar say whatever he wants without a challenge or rebuttal? I'll wait a tad longer to see what Sandy does, then I'm turning the video off as I frequently do. 😮

The amount of people I come across that tell me right to my face how much if a nuisance owning a tesla is is endless. This, after finding out I have a tesla. Never ceases to amaze me how stupid people can be with how convinced they are that they know exactly what theyre talking about even though theyve never owned one. I had one woman recently tell me that EV's dont "start" when the temps drop too low and thats why she'd never get one living in Canada.

I install these level 2 dual head stations and they are around $9k each for a glorified home charger and a pedestal.

@musicmakerman867

8 ай бұрын

A fancy extension cord and credit card reader

Tesla builds a Charger Unit and puts it under the back seat of a new car. Then they make a 95% duplicate of that Charger and add it to the dozens that fill the cabinets you see at every Supercharger location. That is where Tesla's charging reliability comes from. No one else can come close to this success.

Man i wanted to see more i am invented in charge point ! I believe in there products

Ill say having used chargepoint DCFC , they are right below EA in terms of reliability. And by far at the bottom on speed. I actively avoid them. The business model appears to not be tailored to a good charging experience.

@buzzlightyear3461

8 ай бұрын

"EA". Is electrifyamerica ?

@sparkfire1223

8 ай бұрын

@@buzzlightyear3461 yea

Only once in my life have I ever driven over 800 miles without stopping with a pre diesel gate Touareg TDI. I was not on empty at arrival

@photogravity

8 ай бұрын

I have a 2007 MB E320 Bluetec and have achieved 700 miles on a tank of fuel. When I had my 2001 VW Golf TDI, it would regularly achieve 600 miles on a tank of fuel when I was on a roadtrip. Even my 2002 Sprinter Passenger wagon (lowroof) can achieve 600 miles on a tank of fuel without too much problem. That said, I am now in my late 50s and retired so I find that I can take more leisurely trips. My 2023 Ioniq 6 SE RWD (large battery) will easily get me 250 miles (usually more) on 70% of the battery, which is about 4 hours of driving. That is perfectly fine for most people.

Looks like he was a little nervous 😂

@FrozenHaxor

8 ай бұрын

Heavy weather under there 😂

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Charge point is the best third party I've ever dealt with with my electric car if I've had a problem I could give him a call and they were always able to fix it they don't have as much level 3 as I would like but they've waste gotten me out of a pinch

Where is Cory? I haven't seen him in months. Is he still the President of Munro? He needs more screen time, please. I, for one, miss him greatly. I tu ed in originally for Sandy's expertise, but Cory seems just as up on things and I was impressed with his weight loss. We Want Cory. We Want Cory. We Want Cory 😂❤ As for long distance vehicles, I have driven across the country before. I don't think I ever drove more than 250 miles at a stretch because of bathroom breaks, mostly. The next biggest need to stop was getting food. Well in third place was the need for gas. This was back to in 1986 that I drove from Morgantown, West Virginia to Portland, Oregon. We left on Monday morning at 6:00AM and arrived in Portland at 6:00PM on Friday evening. We stopped every night at motels. We only had to modify our planned stops when we got caught in a blizzard north of Denver when we had to stop at Cheyenne instead of continuing to Laramie in Wyoming. When we stopped at Cheyenne to gas up, by the time I had gassed the car and returned after paying, there were three inches of snow on the hot hood. I started looking for a motel, found one, checked in, and we stayed until morning. We woke up, looked outside at a beautiful sunny day with cleared roads. Wonderful Wyoming. I guess they are used to inclement weather. After we ate breakfast we drove through Wyoming, Utah, and stopped that night in Burley, Idaho. Ironically we could not get a baked potato at dinner, in Idaho! Whenwe ordered, both my wife and myself asked for one with our food, but were told they only had one left. I let my wife have it and got steak fries. However, when she got hers, it was rotten inside, so she too, had fries.

@larslover6559

8 ай бұрын

Didn't he leave the company some months back?

@MrAdopado

8 ай бұрын

He left months ago.

@peterfireflylund

7 ай бұрын

@@larslover6559he works for Lucid now and I believe he plays a large role in their Hail Mary attempt to cut their production costs drastically. It’s basically a job he has prepared for all his life and a once in a lifetime chance to test his ideas in real life. Still miss him in the videos and I hope he left on good terms.

In fact there are fuel cars that can make 700 miles. One of them is VW Passat TDI. This might not apply for German Autobahn but daily driving.

This model is broken as there are many broken or too expensive charge point locations. I almost never go to them unless they are the only option. They don't fix the broken units.

ChargePoint in my neighborhood had cables stolen for over 6 months.

Michael is “Chief Revenue Officer.” Is that another way to say he is vice president of sales? Both titles imply you are responsible for bringing money into the company from customers.

ChargePoint “ hosts “ are required to maintain their charging stations, that’s a bad business model as far as I’m concerned. I’m looking forward to using Tesla charging networks when they are open to all!

Poor guy was having a bad day in the pitting out dept😂 try arm & hammer anti-per + deo

A good charging infrastructure is probably as important as the electrification of vehicles. Bad charging infrastructure...slower adoption to EVs!

ChargePoint is so disconnected from the EV community, It’s a joke. Sites are charging up to six dollars an hour for 6KW!

@zachlafond2652

8 ай бұрын

Some of them are free.

@joeybagadonuts1206

8 ай бұрын

Chargpoint doesn't charge for charging...they just supply the hardware and software. Whoever bought the chargepoint and installed it unit sets the price, if any.

@privettoli

8 ай бұрын

​@@joeybagadonuts1206they shouldn't put their logo on those units if they don't control pricing and uptime.

@rmeden1

8 ай бұрын

Chargepoint doesn't set the price. The owner does. That's the problem... they have no control and it's the Chargepoint name that gets the blame/scorn. Bad business model.

@privettoli

8 ай бұрын

@@rmeden1 it's up to ChargePoint to define the policy for buyers.

Another "Tech" company that sells hardware with an App, a dedicated charger company of 15 years, that's their soul sales line yet their competitor does, cars, charging, robots, insurance, computing, BESS, solar panels and yet he admits they're not a good. Tesla charging is no longer a walled garden, so not sure why he thinks it still is? The App is free, so you won't be including the cost to your B2B customers, you'll take all the costs? There's too many charging companies, watch out for mergers and acquisitions.

@MarlinMay

8 ай бұрын

"There's too many charging companies, watch out for mergers and acquisitions." In my opinion, you've hit the nail on the head here.

@DunkBoi

8 ай бұрын

Think of how many Gas station companies are out in the wild. One company to rule them all (Tesla) is not the correct route. 3 to 4 companies will be in the running and I think ChargePoint will be in that list.

@Michael-Wil

8 ай бұрын

@@DunkBoi If they can get their arse in gear, 15 years in and still a way to go and stop calling themselves a "Tech" company because they have an App. The Tax office has an App, does that make the Tax office a Tech Company, or a bank?

50% of Tesla sales in the bay area is because of the great chargepoint infrastructure provided to the employees for free of cost by many companies ..

Tesla's genius is contracting with local electricians that are available 24/7 to repair and replace failed components.

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

I bet they pay them really well too

id like to see one of these in direct comparison with a Tesla charger.

Sandy I have a Citroën c3 picasso and I get 700 miles on a 50 litre tank. 2010 diesel model

@PygKLB

8 ай бұрын

Let me know when you can fill that tank at home.

@MarlinMay

8 ай бұрын

And you (seemingly) gleefully dump a bunch of crap into the air.

@user-hm4jm1cy7m

8 ай бұрын

@@PygKLB The amount of people I come across that tell me right to my face how much if a nuisance owning a tesla is is endless. This, after finding out I have a tesla. Never ceases to amaze me how stupid people can be with how convinced they are that they know exactly what theyre talking about even though theyve never owned one. I had one woman recently tell me that EV's dont "start" when the temps drop too low and thats why she'd never get one living in Canada.

@IDNHANTU2day

8 ай бұрын

I don't want a Citroën

@PygKLB

8 ай бұрын

@@user-hm4jm1cy7m it’s a Sisyphean task.

One thing about a gas gun, it works for all cars. EV’s can change the charging adapter like with smart phones!! Who wants to deal with that?

Here's the problem... (slightly edited quote) ""we're in the business of proving technology to businesses not around building charging stations and making money on electrons" Chargepoint's name is on the door. People don't care it's the business that owns and is "supposed" to maintain it. They blame Chargepoint. Maybe they should replace all the names on the charger.... "Texaco charging powered by Chargepoint". Even still, people will associate Chargepoint with unreliable charging. Sounds to me like they're doubling down on a failed model rather than fixing it.

So apparently Sandy has a nack for interviewing failing companies. Arcimodo, Aptera, Charpoint…if you own a stock and Sandy does a video sale as quick as you can.

U should do a breakdown on Hyundai ioniq 5. Incredible Tiny Home has a portable solar storage unit. Wyndmoor PA

Chargepoint knows they are in trouble with their products, marketing model, customer service and revenue and are reaching out to influencers to delay the inevitable. I expect bankruptcy in 2-5 years, or someone to buy them out for their IP.

@MunroLive

8 ай бұрын

We are an engineering consulting firm, not influencers.

@lighthousesaunders7242

8 ай бұрын

​@@MunroLiveYou're influencers too, don't kid yourselves

@adroper62

8 ай бұрын

@@MunroLive True, but Munro has an influential role by having the reputation of an engineering consulting firm with a noted KZread presence. Also, you are one of many KZread channels elevating ChargePoint's "marketing" campaign.

@joe2mercs

8 ай бұрын

If you supply ChargePoint cows but the dairy supplies sour milk then, by association, your reputation suffers as evidenced by the EV market moving to NACS. The future for public charging suppliers looks bleak and if EV users in a couple of years have to use an additional CCS to NACS adapter so that they can use ChargePoint chargers then this represents yet another barrier.

Great video, But please upgrade you camera in the field to something with a better shutter process, or slow down on the move around, many of the moving shots were useless as they were blurred and watching video makes you sea sick. Better cameras deal with this better.

I would like the charger at a convenient place. Not by the dumpster, by the front door where ICE parks.

@thedopplereffect00

8 ай бұрын

Then giant trucks will park in them just to make you mad. Sad but true.

1:41 What happened to his shirt? That looks really bad.

My home rate for charging is $0.13/kwh..........the only Charge Point I've visited is $0.63/kwh.......this IS how you turn the public away from this tech.....complete rip-off!!!!!

Why are they always broken

@backwoodsbungalow9674

8 ай бұрын

3:25 🤔 Partly because Chargepoint sells chargers instead of earning revenue from selling electricity to EV drivers? Selling cows not milk.🤐

Either his anti-perspiration is substandard, he forgot to put it on, or he was afraid Sandy was going to ask him about all the out of order chargers.

ALARM! B.S. detector.

We are here to know why their system failed or tech failed causing them to backtrack on some of the designs or business model. too bad, did NOT hear these items discussed!!

NACS charging standard designed by engineers to encourage EV adoption. CCS1 charging standard designed by the ICE manufactures marketing departments to discourage EV adoption, trying to keep EV’s from catching on. In 10 years the only place in North America you will find a CCS1 charger will be a museum and electronic surplus stores.

Tesla will own ChargePoint in the next 10 years!

@motofunk1

8 ай бұрын

Nope. They will let them fade away.

@MXP90DL

8 ай бұрын

Why would tesla want a unreliable system. I say nope.

@lsh3rd

8 ай бұрын

Why would they want them? I don’t see the value add to the existing portfolio.

@DunkBoi

8 ай бұрын

ChargePoint will be around for the long run. Don't doubt the power of the monopoly laws.

Respectfully, I disagree about the current ranges being enough. I think the golden number is 500 miles on a charge.

*whispers* There's a Tesla name on that NACS handle because nobody supplies NACS handles yet except for Tesla.

Now only if charge point would ever work then maybe we can charge our cars......

Its amazing ho many haters can be in one place. Ones who have probably never done anything useful or practical in their life. Talking about stock or company revenue on a tech channel? Here is a heavilly integrated company which has a full cycle of design, production and its own reliability test facility making world class products in the USA. Its magic sirs! Be proud and happy that there are still such in here. Because designed and built in USA is about to become a history!

Not that busy there and the employees don’t look comfortable. This company might not be around if they can’t control their costs. There was a lot of insider selling in the last year. Stock is down 82% in 1 year and 50% in 1 month. It is currently $2.50 and dropping. What technology do they have that’s better than Tesla? BP’s 100 million deal for Tesla Superchargers today is very bad news for charge point. I can’t imagine charge point can compete on price, ease of installation, reliability, and almost any parameter with Tesla’s charging solutions.

I hope Kyle watches this video. He's wondering how to hook up his DCFC in a temporary way for testing. Just look at ChargePoint's testing lab and do as they do. 😆

@Mari0o0o

8 ай бұрын

He’s already been there and has done a similar video

@rednwhitecooper

4 ай бұрын

Kyle’s video was so much better. Sandy looks like a schmuck walking around there. I still can’t believe people watch this crap when you can watch informative stuff like what Kyle puts out.

After reading comments I'm glad I have a Tesla. 🙂

Chargepoint is leaving huge money on the table with their 1/2 broken EV chargers around the Disney World resort..... Huge need but very old, very few chargers(begging to make money)....

@DunkBoi

8 ай бұрын

Tell Disney to pay for more. ChargePoint doesn't manage the stations, that's the owners not caring about EV charging or EV drivers.

Funny the repair crews for EV chargers show up in gasoline vehicles!!!!

Charge point looks like it was funded with the least amount possible employed with the lowest paid workers possible with the bulk of the money put to a shiny first impression and appearance that is only skin deep. Nothing in this video impressed me and the results are apparent. Thank you Sandy for showing us the reality of the product and not the glossy advertisement. Success is what you do, not how you look.

@sillystuff6247

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear an imbecile say this. You're a perfect inverse indicator, like Jim Cramer. 🤣😂🤣 In reality, ChargePoint is recognized as the leading company in the EV charger segment. You literally couldn't be more ignorant. Congratulations cretin 🎉

F onboard navigation Just put em on google maps

poor guy needs a new shirt...

Their business model is fundamentally flawed. Relying on someone else to manage not only pricing but repair and upkeep is putting the wrong foot forward. Inconsistency with your product will kill a brand faster than it can expand. Companies like ChargePoint need to stop selling its equipment to 3rd parties and take responsibility to properly manage and maintain its own network.