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From what I heard at the dealership yesterday, the grid here is "struggling to keep up" as a result. I don't know how true that is, but he did talk me out of spending several thousand dollars on a faster charger for my bike (6kw -> 12kw), claiming it would actually charge slower since it can't negotiate at peak rate pretty much anywhere in the state.
I would usually be more sceptical, but this guy is paid on commission and basically talked himself out of a bigger paycheck.
Out of curiosity, how what kwh does your bike's battery have? Thinking that you could get a big 12kw inverter and a few server rack batteries. It'd be several thousand for the setup, but it could charge asynchronously throughout the day.
It's ~17kWh and it takes about two hours..ish at the stock "6kw" charge rate, but can be hardware upgraded to "12kw" in order to cut that down to about an hour when the charging infrastructure supports it. Evidently there is some kind of issue where if it can't provide 12kw due to charger limitations, it actually downgrades itself to 3kw, there by lengthening charge time over the stock.. gizmo (inverter??? Idk).