Pulled into Harris Ranch oh highway 5 to get a DC fast charge. There are 100 chargers. 94 are all Tesla Super chargers. 80 of the Tesla chargers came online within the past 2 months. About a quarter were in use. But I don’t have a Tesla, I have a Rivian. There are just 6 charging spot. 1 was broken, so only 5 were functioning. They were either 150kW or 300kW chargers. NO one was getting more than 70 kW. WTF… Lucky for me I only had to wait 15 minutes and was charging. But right feet me, 5 more people arrived to charge. The ALL saw EA was saying there was an bailable charger. FUCKING EA - It says on charger screen out of service. None of these people had enough charge to get to the next chartering station which is 30 miles away so here they sat watching Tesla’s pull in, get charged and leave. I felt sop sorry for these people getting fucked by EA/VW. Tesla’s charging network and software is THE selling point for Tesla.
Why is EA fucking us over? Is this their revenge of being forced to spend $1 Billion on EV chargers over diesel gate?
EA being bad is part of the legacy auto plan to sell more gas cars. If you can make the EV experience suck, you can then turn around and tell regulators there’s no demand for EVs (like GM did with the first ZEV mandate in California when they killed the EV1)
Luckily for you (but not so much for Tesla owners), Rivian will soon have access to superchargers.
Think Elon/Tesla might change their mind?
I was hoping it would but judging by their rushing to claim demand is down, I don’t really see signs they’re honestly moving to EVs.
These companies are not dumb (despite what some say), they knew very well that adoption hinged on a good charging network but they still neglected charging.
Now they can claim they “tried but demand is low, so let’s move the date to 2050”. I’ll get downvoted for it but let’s revisit in a year when they’ve had a chance to repeat their claims of low demand. I hope I’m wrong.