utterly failed? we’ve just started mass consumer adoption. this reads like the typical “only elon can save the world” shtick.
i have a non tesla ev and it’s totally fine.
i have a non tesla ev and it’s totally fine.
For EA, there’s also a 10% chance it’ll flip my car’s “oh my god you are trying to make me explode with bad voltage, abort! abort!” alarm/circuit breaker.
At home, there is no problem. For a given evgo charger, there is no problem (so I know it isn’t my car).
Also, the flaky data connection stuff from above is documented in the ea UI (and only seems to apply to them… they really suck).
I’ll begrudgingly admit that chargepoint generally works, but screw them for having an app (and they’re mostly only level 2 anyway).
Also, there are a half dozen smaller networks, each of which is also a fractal snowflake of bullshit like this.
It really isn’t. Driving my Leaf or i3 beyond 70 miles round trip is absolute Russian roulette. Will the charger be in service? Will it accept payment? Will it accept payment and then, for unknowable reasons, just not initiate charging?
Contrast that with driving 2000 miles round trip in a Tesla. There’s not going to be any trouble charging, ever.