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?
With GM, Ford, Rivian, et al getting access to the Tesla charging network, no reason to buy a Tesla with its lack of inline screen, major safety issues with lack of Blind Spot Alert and Cross Traffic Alert and issues with phantom braking which can cause accidents.
Just saw this post again while I’m sitting at an EA station. Two of the four chargers had to be hard reset. Plus the power was limited to 100kW even when I was at 15%. What a clusterfuck these things are.
EA fucked it up so bad they had a virtual monopoly on non-Tesla DCFC and still fucked it up. Once the NACS transition is finished, EA will die
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.
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).
It sounds like the EA charger software is written by the same team that wrote the ID4 software.
It is funny hearing all the Musk/Tesla owners so excited to use Superchargers. Tesla makes the best EVs and the best charging network.
VW/Audi makes the worst EVs and the worst charging network.
Chevy does not want to make EVs.
Ford cannot afford to makes EVs.
Hyundai / Kia have a history of poor quality under the hood (fires, bad engines, failing ICCU, …).
Volvo/Polestar EVs are made in China. When Biden lifts the Tariff’s, Geely and BYD will Wipeout legacy auto.