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This is spot on. I do a ton of cross country driving and seeing people sitting in their car charging for an hour outside a diner in a gas-station-town off a highway is super common and makes the point. I talk to them. They rationalize it. But you can tell it sucks.

We all want a cleaner planet and we need to be able to talk about how to solve the charge time problem without the hysterics and the bullshit.

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There is no need to charge for an hour today unless the car is first gen EV or the charger is not a fast charger. The fast charger roll out could be better, but it's expanding quote rapidly, only in the most rural places is it a major issue... That said I have seen cases where people add 30 mins of a diversion to a route to use a fast charger for 30 mins.

>There is no need to charge for an hour today unless the car is first gen EV or the charger is not a fast charger.

Do you live in a world where you're the only person using charging infrastructure and never have to wait in line?

Hmmm. I've charged publicly ~100 times on the Tesla network (mostly cross-country, but some long city stays) and I've had to wait briefly twice.

I've had an EV since 2019 and did a few longer trips, including outside teh normal charging networks and I only had to wait fun line twice. It IS annoying when it happens, especially when I was in the middle of nowhere and the charger was being used by a pluggable hybrid

I've never waited. 95% of my charging is at home. The other 5% is Tesla superchargers and have never waited. At most 90% of slots taken, so close, but never had to wait so far.

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