[vel0city]

I've liked that 7-Eleven started putting DCFC's at some of their nicer locations in the US. The last time I did a fast-charging session was for a few-minute stop after a weekend spent away from home. The 7-Eleven was a pretty new location, easily right off the highway, and had a decent taco restaurant along with the usual snacks and pizza and roller grill items. Having a quick taco, grab some drinks, and a quick pee break for the kids gave us more than enough charge to get back home.

And the charger had a traditional credit card terminal on it. I didn't need any special app. Plug in, tap my payment, and it was charging.

I was doing a road trip through Ontario and stumbled upon a set of rest stops called onRoutes. These were pretty neat. A food court with a quick convenience store with a gas station and nice restrooms, right off the highway. They had a number of DCFC's which usually seemed in good working order, but this road trip was with an ICE so I can't speak to actual uptime. I did see a lot of cars charging, on my trip, so they seemed good.

https://www.onroute.ca/

More stops need to be like that for the 250kW+ stops on major highways. They were so easy and nice to go though.

For more highway-adjacent sit-down restaurants and areas (think Cracker Barrel kind of stops and those highway exits with lots of sit-down restaurants) I think it makes more sense to have those ~50kW chargers be the norm, maybe a few higher power ones. Have a dozen or so ~50kW chargers that'll have your car to 80-90% in an hour or so, four+ 250kW+ chargers for those quickly getting through, and a bunch of 9.6kW AC chargers for those stopping for a few hours.

[cmrdporcupine]

I live in Ontario and haven't had a chance to use the ONroute chargers yet but I haven't heard good things. They're run by Ivy who has a bad reputation for reliability and rates.

As much as I dislike Musk personally, I will probably buy the NACS adapter and just use Tesla stations.