[magicalhippo]

We own an i3, and when doing longer trips the range anxiety isn't so much if we'll find a charging station, but if we'll be able to charge there.

For some reason charging stations seems to have a very high out-of-service frequency, and very often this status is not accurately reported in the various charging location apps.

It also doesn't help that certain apps tell you that there's an available charger when the reality is that the charging station has both CCS and CHAdeMO, someone is using the CHAdeMO so the CCS is useless. If you plug it in you won't be able to charge until the other one stops, and worse you won't be able to disconnect from the charger until then either. Yay!

Though this is usually just an issue on longer trips, and our car isn't exactly built for that anyway with its ~250km summer range.