Three months into the MG4, first ever new car, first EV obviously. Charging at home's been easy enough at the house here in regional NSW, but I did a trip down to Sydney for a family thing last week and needed to top up twice on the way — first time relying on public charging away from my own driveway.
Ended up with PlugShare for finding stations, Chargefox for one stop, Evie for the other because Chargefox didn't have anything close by, and then downloaded AmpCharge on the drive because I saw a sign for it and panicked a bit. Four apps, four accounts, four sets of card details, all before lunch.
Is there something that actually shows live availability across networks in one place, or is this just what public charging in Australia is until someone builds that? Feels like a lot of admin for something that used to just be pulling into a servo.
