This is just a symptom of a much larger issue. Mobile apps are, by and large, teerrrrible. Having the sole method of access to a service require one is a recipe for disaster. Especially one that’s so critical.

Just what I needed to watch. My wife and I are directors of our farm business and own property, plus small pensions. I am nearly 55, my wife is 52. We have started to save to retire from the farm, and possibly live on rental income, I'd really appreciate you go LIVE and talk about how to earn passive income online and retire comfortably, let’s say $1M.

Can we all show some appreciation for the random person leaving such a helpful note for people not from that town .

I did my first EV road trip on a Polestar 2 (rental) from SF to LA and back. My experiences mostly match with this, with the added fun of thanksgiving traffic forcing everyone to wait for 12 cars waiting in line in front of them to charge using 2 broken stalls and 2 working ones, while the Tesla superchargers on the other side of the road were mostly empty. It made me seriously reconsider my plan to switch to an EV..

The spread of mobile apps into things that don't really need them is a curse. It's fine to have an app as an extra feature but if it's fundamental to the functioning of the product that's a dealbreaker, at least for me.

OF COURSE I want to see you do another road trip when your Polestar can charge at Superchargers

Watching this just reinforces why buying a Tesla was the right decision. They thought about the entire user experience where the other automakers just thought about the car and that's it.

20:01 That excited feeling of seeing someone else having the exact same car as you is relatable 😂

Honestly it's pretty incredible how well Tesla has done in setting up their own charging infrastructure. Don't just sell the car, sell the entire experience sort of thing.

The reason I see this happening is because there are reasonable incentives to open a charging site but little to no incentives for operating them. So you see them pop up and degrade quickly, never to return to full capacity.

you are always entertaining and I enjoy these daily slices of EV ownership videos, almost as much as the bus conversion ones. Keep it up, thanks.

I've been considering an EV since I do a ton of driving for work. But I noticed that francis energy charger was charging $0.49/kwh. To get a full charge in that polestar 2, you'd need to spend $38.22 for around 300mi of range. My current, non-hybrid gas car fills up for $22 and gets 330mi per tank. Wheres the savings here? Even with the tesla, this whole thing seems like a pain. Have to plan my entire route around getting from charging station to charging station, and at each station you're sitting there for 30mins to an hour, after downloading the 17th proprietary single use app to pay for that specific charger.. In a normal gas powered car, you just go. Get low on gas at some point and you pull into any one of the bagillion gas stations on a whim and you're good to go in 2 minutes.

The most wholesome part about the ev community is the helpful note left in the broken charger at 11:50

I rented a Polestar 2 from Hertz in Orlando. The Hertz reps actively tried to persuade me NOT to rent the car and get a Tesla instead. (I drive a Model 3 at home). After 15min, I persuaded THEM to rent me the Polestar I had reserved -- and had the same experience you had. I'd even done my homework on Plugshare and set-up the apps in advance. Chargers were hard to find, limited current and were sometimes full because they're limited in quantity. You'd have to be an engineer to figure this out. If you want regular people to hate EVs, give them a non-tesla for a road trip in 2023

I would love to see something like a Top Gear race between the Tesla and the Polestar (or other brand) where you select a start point and a destination and let the driver determine how they get there. Then tally up costs, time, frustrations, and show the results.

This is the first video I saw by you and it was an instant subscribe! Definitely one of my favorite channels, keep doing what you do!

Making the same trip in the two EVs was a brilliant idea, and switching back and forth between them makes it really obvious how much better the Tesla road trip experience is: faster, less stressful, and just plain easier. Tesla deserves a lot of credit for showing everyone how good it can be. I’m so glad other EVs will soon be able to charge at Tesla Superchargers.

This was not only entertaining but was also an incredible and comprehensive rundown with so much data in it. I'm sure you enjoyed the trip, yeah, but also just the same thank you so very much for putting this together!

All politicians pushing EVs should be forced to turn in their gas powered cars for EVs. This will let them see and suffer what they are essentially forcing people to live with.

That really left an impression. I did not know that these cars are so annoying to charge.

tesla driver here, I used to be really puzzled after seeing people swap chargers so much and now I understand why. The supercharger I stop by at a long commute has a shell CCS point in front of it. And whenever I'm there, I always see at least 1 person shuffling within the stalls and wondered why (since he was the only car there in all 4 stalls). I guess they are trying to get the one that actually charges full speed.

The charger's often aren't "configured wrong" when you can only get 60kW out of a 150kW charger. They are purposely configured that way, though it's very often a power limitation at the charging site that can/will be upgraded down the line. The owner of the charge site would rather get the chargers on the ground ASAP and set them up how they can right now, and then later deal with the massive undertaking that is getting a utility company to upgrade the available power there. Love the videos. More charging content.

So glad you took the time to document this! Such useful info!

Where was this video a little over a month ago? I drove the Polestar cousin Volvo C40 Recharge cross country and back. Baltimore, Maryland to Los Angeles. 2700 miles... We spent most of our time at Electrify America. Lots of overnights on empty Walmart lots. It's the creme dela creme- which isn't that great. We got the plus pass just for the trip. Some were down, but technicians roam the country repairing them(we talked to quite a few otw and back). BTW, the worst was Oklahoma. I won't say the name, but u did.... they required a $20 deposit before it worked. The price was the highest in the entire country. And it was pretty slow. Unfortunately, it didn't work. We kept trying. Unknown to us, it took $20 to hold EVERY ATTEMPT. We were down hundreds with no explanation. We had to ride backwards 20 miles while almost empty to a building in the middle of nowhere. Range anxiety was real. Luckily it worked! W had no idea what was going on. It also happened on a EA- turns out the auto refill wasn't working. Our bank didn't recognize the transactions, and blocked it. It just kept taking and holding our money. We had a few super extra slow inner city chargers that took half the day to get us 10-20% charge. It was great...smh We averaged 2 hours of driving to every hour of charging. Easily 30-60 sessions. Overall the prices weren't bad, but the headache made it not worth it. Go tesla, or don't go at all

As I've said so many times, range anxiety isn't the issue, charge anxiety most definitely is!

They should color code charging stations like they do grades of gasoline. I've seen Rivians pull up to charge on a 100 kW station when there are two 200 kW and four 350 kW stations right next to it. I've also seen lots of Bolts use the 350 kW stations when they should be going to a lower rating machine to leave the 350s open for those who can use them.

Good video, my experience was worse with our F150 Lighting. We now have a 2023 Model S and life is better now. We live in Canada and most all of the EV chargers that are not Tesla are not close to the highways and do take extra time to get to like a couple of the chargers you had. Thanks and keep up the good work.Cheers!

“This is where the introverts park” 😂😂

I know for a fact, as much as I love EVs, this would give me massive anxiety from the amount of guesswork and luck involved with charging.

I couldn’t have made a better show of this if I tried. Nailed every detail, added comedy and extremely well-edited. Great job, sir. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

thank you for driving through monteagle, my grandparents live there, it's really, really nice

Thank you for educating me on the 200-amp limit on chargers & polestar not being able to do 800v

Your experience pretty much matches with mine. We have a Bolt and a Tesla. So, in many ways, our experience is better than yours because with the Bolt as long as we're getting around 50 kw, we're happy since that's all it can do anyway. We're usually just happy if the station works at all. The Tesla is a totally different experience.

I don't plan on getting an EV anytime soon, but thank goodness there are individuals like him that beta test the future of EV. So many issues with these chargers.

I just started looking into this. I learned some things here and by that, I mean I learned EVERYTHING. Thank you for all your work making this video. 😀cheers

Laughed all the way thru the video. You have a talent for presentation, Thanks. Love driving my Tesla Model Y LR. The same trip in a Model Y LR only requires two stops, :16 min. and :22 min. At hotels you are welcome to go inside and get coffee and snacks and relax inside, the reception area is always open, I enjoy stopping there if I am not on the hunt for cooked food or you can get take out and bring it inside and dine there. At the Nashville SC that is one of our favorites, we go into Kroger and get some eats, open 6AM to 11PM.

There is a British EV channel that did something similar with a Zero motorcycle. He wound up with some 6 or more apps in order to charge, as every station seemed to have its own brand of charger. He was going about as far as you did.

it’s crazy to me that the only station that even had a roof over it (not counting the one inside the garage) was the station at the end, a lot of those looked frustratingly fiddly, and i can’t even imagine how miserable it’d be in pouring rain

I really appreciate your patience. This was a great video.

This video has been riveting! I started my EV experience renting Kia Niro, Hyundai Kona, and Polestar 2 models. I returned a Nissan Leaf after one lap around the block. Since I didn’t have a home charger, I had to rely on public stations-experiencing everything you described and more. Getting ICED¹︎ is the worst when there is only one Level 2 or 3 charger within 10-15 miles. Eventually, Budget and Hertz expanded their Tesla stock so I could enjoy seamless, fast charging-as well as the best overall EV experience available. I now drive a Tesla daily and can’t fathom purchasing from any other brand²︎ until they come pre-installed with NACS. ¹︎This is when an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) powered vehicle parks and blocks an EV charger. In many places, fines can match or exceed those of handicapped spots. ²︎Sorry, Tesla… I already plan to buy another brand at that point if you still haven’t adopted CarPlay. Even the Polestar has CarPlay… with an OS powered by Android³︎! ³︎The first Polestar 2 I rented did not have CarPlay and the OS constantly crashed. It was a horrible experience. Six months later, I rented another and found they fixed nearly every bug while also adding CarPlay. Kudos to Polestar for moving quickly to improve their customer experience!

I love that chargers and stations seem designed by the hostile architecture guys.

The thing is with these being connected to their apps they should know when a charger is broken or underperforming. So if any are bad they are choosing to leave them in poor condition.

I love your channel and thanks for sharing. I have also never been to a gas station pump and not gotten a full tank in less than 5 minutes.

3:06 If there is a gas station on the other side of the street, then just cross the street. A 1-2 minute walk can't be that bad? ;)

Imagine if gas stations required an app instead of having a booth or a payment terminal

At least at a Walmart, Dollar General, or other store there's something to do! The hotel locations I'm sure are meant for guests staying at a room. In that situation (and ONLY that situation), chargers make a lot of sense, but they don't need to be _rapid_ chargers. It would be great if gas stations put in charging stations, and situated them like single-deep gas pumps. Then the stations can have things to do inside, like arcades, TVs with tables and chairs to eat hot food and drink beverages people buy inside, the station will have a captive audience they can capitalize on if they configure the place correctly.

Awesome Video! Really shed some light on the charging infrastructure that I too have come across. I did a 750 mile from St. Louis, MO to State College, PA last year... now I'm worried about these changes (even near where I live the stations here have become unreliable). I don't know if I want to make the trip again. Also, I have a 2023 Nissan Leaf, so even scarier with a CHAdeMO plug. Not sure if you noticed... most of the EA stations "Station 1" or the "CHAdeMO" stations were almost ALWAYS down. At the very least around here, they are ALWAYS the one people go to use, meaning that I can't charge without a 3-4 hour wait time.

Would have been great to get some data regarding the extra time it took to do the drive including all the messing around with slow/ faulty chargers.

“Tragically underserved” has definitely been a key part of my experience in a Non-Tesla. I’ve so far not had much trouble finding decent charging speeds at EA chargers, but the useful ones near me have so much contention that you’re pretty much assured a wait at them.

Tesla is adding NFC payment terminals on their V4 superchargers in accordance with the rules for getting IRA funding to help build out their network. Those charger should also do 1000V at 350A or more for 350kW charging.

No go for me on long distance trips in a Tesla. 2 Decembers ago, I took the fam from SoCal to Vegas in our MYP and it became a bit of a nightmare. A line of 30 Teslas waiting for stalls to open, some drivers pretending they don’t see the end of the line and trying to cut in front of an unsuspecting person, some stalls were busted, but you didn’t know until you pulled into the stall - which happened to me. By then I just lost my place in line and trying to navigate that situation was horrible. I was panic screaming at a guy as I tried reversing my tracks back to the front of the line. Took 2 hours to charge. ::shudder:: Still have the Tesla, but no more long trips.

This has been such an informative and entertaining video! Seeing your excitement about charging percentages and kilowatts, had me cheering for you when you could a good charging station! I'm on the fence and currently "window shopping" for a new vehicle; researching if driving an EV will be good investment for me for the long term. I tend to keep my vehicles for 7-10 years. Seeing the trials and tribulations of charging on a road trip definitely gives me things to consider. Thanks for sharing a real time and real experience of EV ownership. Definitely entertaining! :)

I'm kinda surprised that most charging stations don't have a canopy over them. I'd love to see this in the Polestar when you have access to superchargers.

This video just seems like a public service out and out. Doing these trips, showing the experiences so people know what they might be getting into. I, for one, thank you. And would love to see another road trip in the manner you suggested.

Dang this was eye opening! Thank you for this video.

example: imagine you go to your friend's house, you take your charger because your phone battery is low and you discover that, not only you need an adapter and the power outlet doesn't charge fast as it should, but you also have to download his app to unlock that port... The need for an app to pay for refuel is a big NO for me to an electric car... Why not like every other system and just pay with a credit card until the charge ends?!? This is bullsh*t and I won't spend a penny (or an euro) for this mess... If you want people to switch to electric, you have to make something serious, not lucrative. Imagine an old person with his first electric car, they arrive and they need to have internet connection, find the app, create an account, add your card infos and activate the charge... wasted at least 10 minutes... They will go back to fuel after all that pain.

Great video comparison! One thing not mentioned is that in a Tesla the car figures out which chargers to go to and how long to charge. I just did a road trip from Raleigh NC to Bel Air MD (440 miles) and had to stop to charge once for 15 minutes. By the time I went to the bathroom and got a snack, the car was pretty much ready. Without the Tesla supercharger network, it would be a big hassle and stressful.

This is the best EV charging experience video I have seen to date. Well done. As a Californian Tesla owner with friends who own non-Teslas, I'll say that our collective experiences have been very similar. But, I'll add... My biggest anxiety is not reliability, but availability due to usage. That's an entirely different issue to deal with right now.

Would love to see the follow up video. I am Interested in EVs but videos like this illustrate why I can't afford to rely on sketchy charging networks.

hey guys here it is We "Amelia" my Tesla 3 performance and I went from Asheville to Nova scotia, Quebec city, the Great Lakes, Victoria, Cape Flattery, San Francisco, Mendocino, LA, Tajuana, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Austin, New Orleans, Key West and back home to Asheville. 13,850 miles, 35 states, 32 days, 96 charging stops, 2 times had to change nozzles (not working). I used only Tesla on board charging maps, not once I had to wait. This is only possible with a Tesla. Go do it guy's. Charging cost was $0.22 to $0.63 a Kwh on my trip average 3.5m/kw Crossing the USA and Canada I was ready for anything. In SF I broke a wheel but I had a spare and jack, changed while while charging. in Covington La. a Ford Lightening driver had to wait 4 Hours to make it back home (80miles 8KW charger) Qs ? leave comment thanks

I went across the country from Denver to New Hampshire in an EV6 in late 2022. My experience was this or worse at every single Electrify America station. I didn't even get to use the free credit that came with the EV6 at most stations as the app continually crashed, let alone the constant charger issues. We almost got stranded outside of Cleveland as all but 1 charger at a state rest stop was busted. Outside of the set of chargers across the highway (at the rest stop going in the other direction), there were no other options. Sadly even the complimentary Level 2 chargers at our hotels were often faulty. One hotel didn't even have one as advertised, quote "because a semi truck took it out months ago". The infrastructure is inexcusably poorly built and thought out. These apps are faulty. Something needs to be done, and I'd prefer to have more than 1 reliable long distance charging option in the country.

This mirrored my experience as well. Thanks for the honest video. I rented a Polestar 2 from Hertz, going from California to Az and back this past week . First, I really like the Polestar 2, it deserves better fast charging. For my trip, all I used was EA chargers. For reference, gas car takes 5:30- 6 hours give or take one way, it took 8 hours plus each way due to the same issues you experienced and waiting for a charger to open up. I consistently got like 80Kw give or take charge rate. To be fair, I did only drain the battery to 30-40% to make sure I could make it to another charger if I had to. But it's bad when you are more surprised the chargers work on the first try and you don't have to wait for a charger to open up. From what I could tell, Tesla owners looked like they had no issues and plenty of open chargers when ever I passed their super chargers. I would try a Tesla for the same trip next time...but if I need to have more assurance of my ETA and less "adventure", i will just take a gas car...I really wish the state of charging was better. I hope the adoption of NACS does not create a bad experience at super charges in the near future.

The only bad thing I see is that none of the other auto makers are going to put in the infrastructure and the Tesla owners are going to face backed up chargers

This summer I went on a 13,500km roadtrip through Europe in a long range Tesla Model 3 and documented every supercharger session, including cost and kWh charged. During the whole trip (52 charging sessions) I encountered 2 or 3 defective chargers, but I was told about them by the car ahead of time and there were always like 11 other superchargers to pick from. Most of the chargers were open to other cars, so there would usually be a huge variety of EVs at the Tesla chargers. There was never any queues, and I always got the advertised speeds. (150kW at V2s, 250kW at V3s and V4s) I decided to try to charge at one non-tesla charger. It was an "Iberdrola" charger in Spain, which was located in the parking lot for a hotel I was staying at. It wanted me to use an app that was entirely in Spanish. Sure, I can use google translate and get through that. There was no guest option, instead it required an account. Where I got stuck was when it wanted my Spanish national ID number. Why does a paid charger need me to be a Spanish citizen?? So I was kinda just stranded at the hotel. I had planned my route with this charger in mind. I ended up having to drive in to the middle of Madrid to get to the nearest supercharger, and arrived with only 2%. All I learned was to never rely on anything other than the supercharger network. In any case, I'm glad it's opening up for as many people as possible. I've seen a lot of Tesla owners selfishly argue that it should remain closed, but that's dumb.

I have an older Tesla and I still get range anxiety in the Midwest because of the supercharger spacing is still pretty far. Hopefully with the additional cars they will add some more stations between the ones that are 140 miles apart.

Very well done, your video editing skills are very good.

The unspoken frustration that many ppl like myself would have never known if it wasn’t for your video. I own a model Y and I figured the charge speed was standard for all EV CARS or better base in their charger labels but I guess that’s further from the truth. Thanks for the exposing information between the two

This is why I bought a Model 3 instead of an Ioniq 6 (not to mention it's cheaper). Superchargers make the transition from a gas car a breeze. Having to rely on a shoddy charge network was an absolute dealbreaker, despite all the cool stuff happening with non-Tesla EVs.

First thing I did on getting my Cupra Born EV was install and register every charging app for every station within 1000km of my home in Sydney, Australia. A dozen apps, all prepared with my payment details, just in case I end up at one of these. It's got to get better.

There is giant asterisk next to Tesla, or any EV, when you factor in where you are located in the country. My good friend who has a daughter in college at Nebraska, made the road trip from Minnesota to Nebraska with his wife in his model 3 to visit their daughter. Not only did they have a hard time finding charging stations or planning routes around charging stations, but the experience of charging the car and waiting was so awful, upon arriving in Omaha, they traded in their model 3 for a Subaru, which they decided to give to their daughter on the spot, booked a flight back home, and bought a ICE Audi after they returned home. Afterwards they swore they'd never buy electric again, until the technology developes and matures significantly more than where it's at now, and a competent infrastructure system is in place and available nationwide. I also have friends and family who have Teslas and other EVs who live on the West Coast, and they love them because charging stations are everywhere. Now those are obviously two scenarios on opposite ends of the spectrum, but clearly EVs are not the magical solution to fossil fuels yet, and ultimately they may never be, considering the cost of actually developing the needed infrastructure to make them a nationwide reality.

It's always seemed to me that interstate aligned chargers should be next to a mini-mall, with a couple restaurants, a convenience store, maybe an arcade, a small gym with showers, some desks where you could set up your laptop and do some work. Basically you should be spoiled for choice with how you'll spend the 30-90 minutes at that charger. Ultimately I generally prefer to travel by air because I have very limited PTO and spending half of it driving to my destination never appealed much, but if I'm gonna spend 1/5 travel hours charging then it should have something interesting there damn it!

A couple things to remember… 1. As you said, EA was started as VW’s punishment for Diesel Gate. The court ordered they build a certain number of charging stations, not that it be a pleasurable experience for the user. 2. Tesla is entirely vertically integrated in their own ecosystem, so their SuperChargers only have to work with only one vehicle… their own operating software, their own protocols, etc. We’ll see how they do when they have to work with other brands of EVs and more than just Teslas (PS I expect Tesla will still be better than EA does with every brand of EVs). Signed, An F-150 Lightning owner anxiously awaiting my SC adapter

Maybe if Electrify America wasn't operating in complimentary mode they could have money to employ people who could maybe fix their chargers?? Geez. Definitely want to see this test with the Tesla chargers, this video was great!

Most ppl will have no idea about the measurement of energy (charging) differences! They will just plug and sit.......

It’s amazing how reliable Tesla charging stations are. I’m glad I did my homework when buying an Ev, you couldn’t pay me to deal with those other charging stations.

We've been paying by card at gas pumps since the mid-1990s. Its a nearly flawless experience. Why can't EVGo, Electrify America, et al get payments and initiation down is mind boggling. Its like they took an already well thought out process and actively made it worse.

“The vast majority of EV charging is done at home” - this can’t be screamed loud enough. 200+ miles of useful range means I will rarely charge away from home (and even then, usually overnight at my destination).

So basically if your phone ever run of battery during the trip and you need a charge you're screwed.

I had a Tesla for a week in S FL last November (2022) and it was good except for the last charge near the airport when I had to wait a while to get an available SC. Same area I rented a Hyundai Ioniq 5 - EA was a complete failure. I only had 1 good experience there - I did notice that a lot of people were charging there even if the session was bad because they were getting their charges free (3 years of free charging). ChargePoint was a joke at 7.5 kW - not planning on taking a day to charge it. Florida Power and Light had the only ones which constantly delivered at a real level. Each one of these needed a new app loaded for them to be used. Some used the Apple Pay and others needed to add a credit card but the app remembered the card for each use. I do not understand how we allow EA to get away with the poor function - the diesel gate punishment must not have any teeth in it. One other thing that I notice this trip is that you see slow charging cars using the 350's. Its like there are some rules which need to be said - because people do not follow commmon sense. The MB parked at the Tesla charger is a prime example - the sign probably says EV PArking only - so the MB is not in violation but it is not able to use the charger so it is essentially stealing valuable space. It is also odd that Tesla seems to be about to plan out a dozen chargers in a lot and EA has roughly half. I would assume that the parking at the furthest spaces from the Walmart/Target are the best for teh business to give up - plus I read that they want to pull in the EV owners to shop since they are anchored for 30 minutes.

One thing to note is that Tesla regularly upgrades Supercharger hardware. There is a good chance that the V2 units that you stopped at will be upgraded at some point in the future.

I recently bought a PHEV and the amount of broken chargers out there is ridiculous. Now I only charge at home. To answer the question, I went PHEV before going EV to test the reality of the infrastructure and get used to EV life. Glad I did.

I am an EV owner and I will say one problem that rarely gets mentioned is surge use of chargers. The same charging station that has 10 chargers and one guy charging at 10AM on a Tuesday can have 10 people charging and a line of 10+ at 6PM on the last day of a three day weekend. There are times when more people are on the road for a trip, and existing chargers can get overwhelmed. During the eclipse some charging stations were overwhelmed as people showed up to rural areas without much charge, watch the eclipse and then needing to charge, showed up at a charger that normally get very little use.

i love how the chargers are all on the side with no overhang to protect you from rain or snow. thank the gods i have a hybrid rav4. that aint gonna change in a very VERY long time.

Charging experience in the UK is utterly different, yet still quite similar, with faulty chargers, dodgy apps, no card readers etc. The thing that I'm impressed by in both cars here is that they actually show your charging power in kW. None of the vehicles I've used are that helpful. The Peugeot Van tried to tell me in mph, and the BMW i3s just gave time to 100% which is useless if you want to leave at 80%. Luckily some chargers will show the power on the screen, but very few have a screen you can see from inside the vehicle.

This was very interesting. It goes to show how good we have it here in Finland: everyone uses CCS2 (even most Teslas) and this phenomenom of broken chargers was mostly left in the year 2019 or so. What we have here though is that with less price you get less amperage. The cheapest two charging chains (Autoliitto and ABC-lataus 24 to 35 eurocents per kWh) get sometimes limited power, but if you want to spend the extra money (45 to 50 eurocents per kWh) you can go to Tesla, Recharge, Virta or Ionity and get the full speed of your car. The app thing with credit cards is still a thing here though: card readers are only coming in now, with few examples present. They are a requirement for mass EV adoption though, as apps can be very difficult for the technologically impaired (and infuriating for the rest of us). We have plug and charge coming, but outside of Teslas it's considered a curiosity. But fear not, I hear the Finnish pride Kempower charger is coming to America! Enjoy Tesla like reliability, but only better cable management, and a display! 😘

I appreciate this look at EV charging stations, especially in the same location of country as me. While I'm still not going to go for a Tesla when I begin transitioning to EVs, this has made me appreciate car manufacturer's increasing proclivity for hybrid vehicles. That kind of flexibility will make the transition to fully electric cars much easier down the line, once the infrastructure is able to be standardized, regulated, and optimized. This kind of honest look into the reality of the current, early end of the market, plays a significant part in improving that future.

I just did a 380 mile trip in my ID4 from VA to Upstate NY, even with temps at 20+ I had no issues. Others had issues as the chargers in Harrisburg were busy and people had to wait.

"Nope this is where the introverts charge" I felt that. lol 24:04

I cherish the person that put the sign on the charger on 11:50. Should get a pretty penny for that. A pretty one, not plenty.

I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but I love seeing places like Perryville Missouri because that’s around where I live .❤Shout out to Cape Girardeau MO!

10:15 ~ You leaning on the crashed in concreate barrier while wresting with this is exactly what experience I could see happening all the time. Still funny...damn funny!

Tesla has opened up pretty much all of their charging stations here in Norway to everyone (unless you drive a Leaf, that is), and it's heavenly. Add all the other charging providers into the mix, and the picture gets even better. Tesla is by far the cheapest provider, though. Yes, I have to use the Tesla app, but just like their chargers, the app just...works and is very simple to set up and use. And the V4 chargers will also have longer cables and the possibility of paying using credit card. I went into EV ownership in May this year, and it's been excellent.

A small correction on the ChargePoint stations at 11:32, unless those two were configured differently, you can pay by tapping a credit card on them. That's what I did on my first road trip since cell service was terrible in rural Maryland.

After watching this video range anxiety is a fact. Reminds me of the days propane got popular and you spent your road trips planning around fueling now it’s charging. Sitting at a charger captive for 40 minutes sounds like a mark for criminals.

Very entertaining video. This is why I bought a PHEV. I save gas on my commute and can be mostly all electric driving in town. However, on road trips I don’t have range anxiety. Some of those locations were downright scary.

V4 Tesla superchargers have credit card readers and small screens and magic dock in the US. There is an install going in Sparks, NV. An owner spotted them sitting there and posted some pictures of them sitting in a corner waiting for install.

Thank you. Electric isn't really an option for me yet but I love your honesty

Scary part is that no charging stations of even been built under the the 2021 biil that gave $7.5 billion tax dollatrs for 500,000 chargers. So maybe in 10 years we will have 500,000 new cargers that barely work.

I'm just looking at random things and you just drove through my old neighborhood in North Nashville I walked those streets

First, as a native Nashvillian, welcome to Music City and Middle Tennessee. I recognized all the locations you went to including the Tesla charging station in the hotel parking lot downtown next to my office (where I have charged a rental Tesla once). Yes we know that traffic in Nashville is terrible. In fact, it's not just terrible during rush hour, its terrible during most daylight hours, especially in certain choke points. My friend was just elected mayor of Nashville last month and my wife was also elected to the city council and now sits on the transportation subcommittee. The new mayor was elected in part to fix Nashville's traffic problems but it's going to take many years and probably will be very expensive. So just know that it will probably get worse before things get better considering that the state and the feds will likely have to be a part of the total solution, and that's going to take years to implement, assuming the voters go for it. Finally, i know the CFO of the Volkswagen plant with the charging station...I'll have to pass a note to him about your experience.