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?
Electrify America was never intended to bear the weight of the entire auto industry san Tesla.
Other automakers should have rolled out their own charging network (North America version of IONITY).