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by jader201 250 days ago
Yeah, 100% to this too. My wife won't even charge our EV away from home due to the issues we've run into with the various apps.

Not only are they all different, they sometimes just fail. And this is sometimes an app issue, but it's also often a charger issue. We had to literally drive an hour away, with only about 15% remaining, to get to a working charger one time, because we couldn't get either of the two chargers working at the place we often stop by.

Not only was that a big inconvenience, it was stressful not knowing whether we had enough charge to make it to our backup. If we didn't have a backup close enough, I'm not sure what we would've done.

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The obsession with apps is a huge problem with all these.

It needs to be as easy as a gas station. Pull up, plug in, tap credit card, done.