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Maybe because I am a new EV owner, but the potential for lines at charging stations does worry me for the upcoming holiday season.
 
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Maybe because I am a new EV owner, but the potential for lines at charging stations does worry me for the upcoming holiday season.
I would say that is a very valid concern.
 

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It's just you Branden... ;)
There are a few EA fanbios here that even up to today argue every time someone posts regarding broken EA equipment and insist EA's craptastic network "is fine" as long as even one of the stands is working (even at L1 charge rate) at a 12 stand facility... and even if you had to waste 45min on the phone with EA getting that one remaining EVSE working at a 10amp rate.
Here is the standard... "you made it home eventually, right?" if you answer "yes" then ..."it's fine!", and "it's really your fault anyway".
 

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Maybe I've just been lucky in my limited experience of 12 times at 11 different locations. I've always had a successful charge. 2 Locations had some struggle to process payment. About a quarter of locations had at least one unit out of service. Have had to wait once in Boise mostly due to 2 Teslas testing out their adaptors. The big test will be a christmas week roadtrip to SoCal.
PlugShare is your friend. Haven't had issues with the naviagation either although it doesn't seem to precondition unless nav is set to a specific charger location as final destination. Is this correct? Or does it no show preconditioning if battery is already at optimal temps.
 

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Maybe because I am a new EV owner, but the potential for lines at charging stations does worry me for the upcoming holiday season.
Just get there ealry
 

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It's just you Branden... ;)
There are a few EA fanbios here that even up to today argue every time someone posts regarding broken EA equipment and insist EA's craptastic network "is fine" as long as even one of the stands is working (even at L1 charge rate) at a 12 stand facility... and even if you had to waste 45min on the phone with EA getting that one remaining EVSE working at a 10amp rate.
Here is the standard... "you made it home eventually, right?" if you answer "yes" then ..."it's fine!", and "it's really your fault anyway".
Wow, if we lower the standards then everything is fine then....
 

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Maybe I've just been lucky in my limited experience of 12 times at 11 different locations. I've always had a successful charge. 2 Locations had some struggle to process payment. About a quarter of locations had at least one unit out of service. Have had to wait once in Boise mostly due to 2 Teslas testing out their adaptors. The big test will be a christmas week roadtrip to SoCal.
PlugShare is your friend. Haven't had issues with the naviagation either although it doesn't seem to precondition unless nav is set to a specific charger location as final destination. Is this correct? Or does it no show preconditioning if battery is already at optimal temps.
Same I guess I have been so lucky. 100s of visits and only a couple of small issues and I see EA making an effort to improve their system. It‘s sure an easy target though for bloggers, reporters and youtubers to report every issue and drive some views. Then everyone who has ever had to wait 10 minutes for a charger to open up starts screaming and bitching and dreaming about their previous Tesla or whatever. If you don’t like EA don’t use it… lol
 

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I love my R1T, but not enough to give up any of my other vehicles when the Rivian came in. My Grand Cherokee easily gets over 500 miles of highway range and there is much less stress (and less time) when going on road trips in the Jeep. As capable as the R1s are, they are still hampered by infrastructure. This will change, but we are not there yet, and prospective new EV buyers need to be ready for this current (pun intended) reality.
 
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Same I guess I have been so lucky. 100s of visits and only a couple of small issues and I see EA making an effort to improve their system. It‘s sure an easy target though for bloggers, reporters and youtubers to report every issue and drive some views. Then everyone who has ever had to wait 10 minutes for a charger to open up starts screaming and bitching and dreaming about their previous Tesla or whatever. If you don’t like EA don’t use it… lol
It's not about LIKING EA... in many places is the only DC fast charger available....and many with reliability issues....which could mean being stranded.
 

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Except home charging, everything else is EA charging. Why’s that? Cuz they have ev charging stations almost everywhere. And I said that after I have done my crisscross country trip (7.400+ miles) back in May. Using only EA, I found only one problem (Tallahassee Syndrome 🥳) in FL. The label has a 350 KWh rating but delivery was,at best, 150 KWh. Called CS and let them know. Identical issue with labeling I have found in San Antonio.
On my trip I have stopped for 30+ times at EA and have only 1 issue. I highly recommend it their monthly subscription ($4) for discount while charging if you planning long distance trips.

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I’m curious how the RAN network coming online and supercharging network being opened up will impact the EA, EVgo, ChargePoint reliability issues and choice of power output (still putting in 50 kWh rather than a 100-300 kWh these days seems like a bad plan), as they now have to compete a bit more to get folks to visit their chargers (yes, there will always be places where choices will not really exist and I will be adventuring in many of those).

As for the current issues: While there are some obvious problems, I still wonder about several different confounding variables. Is it an overuse problem for the CCS hardware as for quite a while the chargers already up had to be used by everyone causing hardware to fail more quickly? Is it a software issue of so many different brands and models of EVs not necessarily all communicating the same way with the chargers (this might address the new hardware not working yet problem)? Is it an expectation problem of being used to gas being fast so our totally standard psychological response of dwelling on the negative and not paying attention to the positive in terms of having to wait is what is currently directing our dialogue?

Sorry, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
 

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Except home charging, everything else is EA charging. Why’s that? Cuz they have ev charging stations almost everywhere. And I said that after I have done my crisscross country trip (7.400+ miles) back in May. Using only EA, I found only one problem (Tallahassee Syndrome 🥳) in FL. The label has a 350 KWh rating but delivery was,at best, 150 KWh. Called CS and let them know. Identical issue with labeling I have found in San Antonio.
On my trip I have stopped for 30+ times at EA and have only 1 issue. I highly recommend it their monthly subscription ($4) for discount while charging if you planning long distance trips.

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Awesome, do u start the charge from your phone before plugging?
 

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Awesome, do u start the charge from your phone before plugging?
For my part having charged at EA many many times:

I plug in first and then use the EA widget in my mobile app to activate my session. Works >95% of the time.
The occasional time that the reader isn’t working I activate through the app, still usually plugging in first.
The 1 or 2 times both of those failed, usually due to a poor cellular data connection I call EA and ask them to activate for me.
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