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by steveBK123 1071 days ago
Yup. I like to look in the ElectrifyAmerica app periodically at the ~5 stations nearby, and its just a sh*tshow at all times.

9 times out of 10 there are more stalls out of service than in use. And it's always the same ones, because they aren't getting fixed. And it's not just old hardware, because this includes stations that only went live in the last 6-9 months.

If US makers ever sold enough CCS cars, it would have been a huge problem. We are moving over to NACS instead..

If VW wanted to slow EV adoption in the US market, there's not much they would have done differently in their management of EA.

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EA is actually working on the reliability problems now, but they're a few years behind.
They've been "working on the reliability problems" for years. First it was going to be the new hardware. Then it turned out they were having new, possibly even more reliability problems with that hardware, lol.

Can't wait to get my car on NACS and never have to think of EA again.

Like I said, they're behind. Don't hold your breath for them to catch up.
I fully expect them to go out of business before they manage to operate their business well.

Lost opportunity.