When it comes to Chevy EVs, there are a few options for charging, but the quickest is a DC fast charger. Unlike a 120V or 240V charger, a DC fast charger can get you the miles you need in a matter of minutes, rather than hours. Now, Chevy is highlighting how to use a DC fast charger system in the following brief instructional video.
DC fast chargers can be found at a variety of different locations, including public charging stations, but also grocery stores and malls. To connect your Chevy EV to a DC fast charger, first park your vehicle near the charger, then open the charge port door and connect the charger so that it clicks into place, then follow the instructions provided on the charging station itself. You can also use your smartphone and the myChevrolet mobile app or the relevant charging station app, if desired.
With everything plugged in and electrons flowing, your Chevy will activate the charging status indicator light on the top of the dash, which will flash green. A chirp will indicate that the battery is now charging. Additionally, the time required to charge to 80 percent will be displayed inside the vehicle.
As the video points out, it’s not recommended to use DC fast charging beyond 80 percent, as “charging slows down as the battery fills up.” The video also recommends that you consider if the DC fast charge station charges by the minute or the kilowatt-hours added.
Charging will stop automatically when complete, but users can also stop charging using the button on the center display, or the charging station controls. The charger will be locked into the port while charging, and users must stop charging in order to disconnect the charger.
Chevy recommends using Google Built-in navigation or the myChevrolet mobile to find the nearest DC fast charge station, or to find nearby chargers along your route. Interestingly, your Chevy EV will precondition the battery for even quicker charge times if the set destination is a DC fast charge station.
Check out the full instructional video below:
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This is the true future of “fueling” our vehicles. Poor of the naysayers who will die by the fumes of their gas and Diesel engines! I can charge up for free with my home PV system.
What about Condo or town homes people. Besides I bet your trade in EV will be only pennies. Nobody wants used junk..
Electricity is not free.
PV Systems will pay for themselves over time.
How to fuel your EV in 3 easy steps:
1. Put EV in neutral.
2. Push EV over edge of cliff. Use teamwork to avoid injury.
3. Go buy ICE vehicle.
GM owner how much did you pay for your PV SYSTEM? Nothing is free.
ICE is dying. EVs are getting better and better very quickly.
Its only starting to die because the power players are trying to kill it not the consumer. Still hands down the best option. The only way people will buy an ev is if they are forced to. Not by choice but by force. If this wasn’t a power play so to speak then let the masses decide which they would prefer to drive, sounds simple enough rite?
Sounds like they want you to charge just enough to get to next charging station. Charging station hop scotch.
The one thing about pv systems is that they aren’t effective in every state which makes pay back a lot longer so this misconception that you have a pv system installed and you have free electricity is not the case. If you live in a state that has plenty of sunshine for a pv system you are going to shell out up 30,000 which most people have to make payments on. Mr laughter let’s say you have a paid back pv system to charge your ev can you take it with you when you travel? You can have your ev I will stick with ice, it will pull my horse trailer or my drag car more than eighty miles. Did anyone catch where officials in Florida ,after the last hurricane , warned people with ev’s that have been exposed to salt water to pull out of the garage for possible fire, now that is getting better.
Yea boomers haven’t done anything for the technological advancement of the world just holding the world back.
You boomers need to let it go. EVs are the future, we’re still in the early adoption stages and already they have some great ones. Imagine how they’ll look in 10 years. I never understood shaming others for what they like. As an ICE vehicle owner, you guys are weird. It’s like you want everything to stay the same, your entire generation is holding the world back. Grow up.
I have no problem with people wanting to buy EVs. I believe it is their choice. What I have a problem with is the government forcing them on us. Whether it is by regulation, taxation or bureaucratic trickery to force the price of gas higher, or the outright ban on gas vehicles, I do not think it’s the government’s business to be deciding what my choice of vehicles should be.
If you look at the technical advancements, particularly in hand-held electronics and advancements in computer design, many/most of those inovations were made by “boomers”. Like the generations before them, they pushed the world forward and still are. I don’t have a problem with EVs. Currently they are fine commuter cars. Not much for extended road trips or pulling trailers, etc. They have their place in the market and that may expand as their capabilities increase. In many areas of the transportation market, EVs are not ready for prime time.
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. The government, essentially, forcing people’s hands is bs.
Dave who do you think sets the standards for the automotive industry? The government keeps changing the mpg standards and now they are trying to set a standard for no ice vehicles by 2030 or so? So yes the government and the power players of the world are trying to force our hands it is not bs.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you read my comment wrong. I’m saying that them forcing our hands is bs as in the government is wrong for trying to force our hands. You’re agreeing with me here.
Dave i did read it wrong. My apologies.
No need to apologize, I could’ve worded it better. My apologies
Every generation pushes the world forward then they become stagnant and stop wanting change. Boomers are now at that stage where they no longer want change and either want things to stay the same or revert to the past. My generation will be the same way one day, it’s the cycle of life. As of right now though, boomers are the biggest hindrance to progression to all facets of life right now. Well boomers and the government.
Dave It’s not stagnant It’s retirement. Boomers are having a hard time relying on the gen Z and millennial when they are questioning their gender, won’t leave the nest or cry when they are told that they actually have to return to their place of employment to perform their jobs. Can you say for sure that the ev is the answer to the world’s climate change or are we creating a solution for one problem only to create another problem? That answer won’t be known for probably 100 years just as when the combustion engine came about, nobody knew the effects of emissions. I am not saying we shouldn’t go ev but we shouldn’t rush into it. Your motivated generation better do it’s homework on what you are wanting because you are your offspring will be the ones who have to live with the outcome. Myself I am going to finish my stagnant life (retirement) towing my horses or my drag car with my ice truck because I am running out of time and don’t want to waste it waiting for my batteries to charge so I can go another 80 miles. Good luck with your progress and I will be watching and waiting for great things from your generation but don’t drag your feet because I have probably 20 years left.
Well said Kek, spot on. Most of the people who fashion progression miss the forest for the trees.