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Come on then.. lets have your stories. Me first? Go on then...
1) Every Electrify America location I have been to (about 5 so far in the Bay Area) has AT LEAST one not working. Last night, the misfortune of going to San Leandro and every. single. one. was out of order.
2) Going to EVGo (and having to pay, oh the ignominy).. and its much quicker 350kw charger (99pc of Electrify America is 150kw or less..) was unfortunately expensive as I dont have a membership. But it was quick for a 30 dollar fill up (which was only around 35% added).
- Opposite the EVGos solitary(ish) three chargers was..... a bank of TWELVE Tesla superchargers. All of them, at 11pm, full. With people stacking up.
Observations, Tesla, like I had previously, people dont feck around with an app, and then the charger, then paying (or free for the appalling Electrify America company) no - they just reverse up - plug in and thats it.
Except that the chargers are almost always much faster than what the myriad competing sh1t show of non-Tesla charger companies provide - and most importantly..
They are usually working. 3rd party ones arent.
AND....
Theres more of them. A lot more. Which they will need of course because there are eleventy billion more Teslas than any other brand out there - I would say I see almost an 1/8th of all cars in the Bay Area are now electric from what I see. Every like 8th or tenth one. Sometimes its mostly that, but all the Kias, early Leaves, everything. Its great.
EXCEPT IT 'TISNT......
Because most people dont live in stand alone homes, but flats, like the UK. So they need public infra. Which is non existant more or less in the UK - and certainly is not the case in the US - at least in CA.
Commifornia leads the way - but is now a victim of its own success - massive wait times for any charger, even Tesla ones now that have multiple chargers - and they build adequate infra. The 3rd party alternatives are...
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE -
One cannot rely solely on 3rd party commercial capitalist process to make the switch if the money and incentives arent there.
The IRA is a step in the right direction.
But the UX, the whole experience of owning a battery car, even in as well served a battery charging infra as Commiefornia, is still not enough, not even remotely enough.
The poor lass on the EA charger company phone trying to get me to disconnect the cable (it wouldnt) as for the umpteenth time she tried to reset the broken EA chargers (all of them) - and listen to me freezing my ass off fecking around with the whole sh1tshow of it all... bless her. Front line customer service.
TLDR, not ready for prime time. Thankfully I have solar and so can offset charging cheaply at home. But seriously, its enough to stick in your craw. Some chargers are not much cheaper than how much petrol is here.
Sort it out, industry, its not acceptable or fit for purpose. I dont want to have to go back to Tesla. Please.. Seriously.
here endeth the rant.. lol
1) Every Electrify America location I have been to (about 5 so far in the Bay Area) has AT LEAST one not working. Last night, the misfortune of going to San Leandro and every. single. one. was out of order.
2) Going to EVGo (and having to pay, oh the ignominy).. and its much quicker 350kw charger (99pc of Electrify America is 150kw or less..) was unfortunately expensive as I dont have a membership. But it was quick for a 30 dollar fill up (which was only around 35% added).
- Opposite the EVGos solitary(ish) three chargers was..... a bank of TWELVE Tesla superchargers. All of them, at 11pm, full. With people stacking up.
Observations, Tesla, like I had previously, people dont feck around with an app, and then the charger, then paying (or free for the appalling Electrify America company) no - they just reverse up - plug in and thats it.
Except that the chargers are almost always much faster than what the myriad competing sh1t show of non-Tesla charger companies provide - and most importantly..
They are usually working. 3rd party ones arent.
AND....
Theres more of them. A lot more. Which they will need of course because there are eleventy billion more Teslas than any other brand out there - I would say I see almost an 1/8th of all cars in the Bay Area are now electric from what I see. Every like 8th or tenth one. Sometimes its mostly that, but all the Kias, early Leaves, everything. Its great.
EXCEPT IT 'TISNT......
Because most people dont live in stand alone homes, but flats, like the UK. So they need public infra. Which is non existant more or less in the UK - and certainly is not the case in the US - at least in CA.
Commifornia leads the way - but is now a victim of its own success - massive wait times for any charger, even Tesla ones now that have multiple chargers - and they build adequate infra. The 3rd party alternatives are...
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE -
One cannot rely solely on 3rd party commercial capitalist process to make the switch if the money and incentives arent there.
The IRA is a step in the right direction.
But the UX, the whole experience of owning a battery car, even in as well served a battery charging infra as Commiefornia, is still not enough, not even remotely enough.
The poor lass on the EA charger company phone trying to get me to disconnect the cable (it wouldnt) as for the umpteenth time she tried to reset the broken EA chargers (all of them) - and listen to me freezing my ass off fecking around with the whole sh1tshow of it all... bless her. Front line customer service.
TLDR, not ready for prime time. Thankfully I have solar and so can offset charging cheaply at home. But seriously, its enough to stick in your craw. Some chargers are not much cheaper than how much petrol is here.
Sort it out, industry, its not acceptable or fit for purpose. I dont want to have to go back to Tesla. Please.. Seriously.
here endeth the rant.. lol
