Kind of annoyed I picked the "wrong plug" EV

I have a Leaf, so if anyone is on the wrong side of this it's me. CHAdeMO was the wrong plug before NACS was even a thing. In January I got an ElectWay CCS1 to CHAdeMO adapter after Electrify America said they were cutting back on CHAdeMO. I've also charged at Superchargers in NY by stacking adapters. I do 460 miles each way between NY and OH pretty regularly and it's honestly fine now. I check PlugShare before I leave and that's about it. The one thing I learned is the order you do it in. Plug the adapter(s) into the car first and make sure each one clicks. Then plug in the cord, then start the session within about 90 seconds. Once I started doing it that way I stopped having problems.

Your neighbor's jokes aside, the adapter isn't really the problem. The problem is that a lot of the CCS network has been unreliable for years. I had a Tesla with a CCS adapter and had multiple failed charges at EVgo and EA. I ended up going back to Superchargers only. Getting access to the Tesla network is the better side of this transition for you, not the wrong one.

Bolt EUV here, and honestly I'm not feeling it much. I had to swap stalls to get EVgo to work on road trips. Superchargers have always just worked for me. That makes it feel like I gained something, not lost something.

I think some of the "mental tax" goes away once you've done it a few times. The first couple of Supercharger sessions in my friend's Ioniq 5, I was fumbling with my phone and trying to figure out where the cable reached. By the third one it was nothing. What car is it? It makes a difference -- some cars are way pickier with adapters than others.

Mach-E. To be fair, the Tesla adapter has worked every time I've used it. I think it's more the planning part that gets to me, having to think about it at all. Maybe that goes away, like you said.

Use the Supercharger map in the Tesla app for planning and ignore the rest. Easier said than done when the car's own nav pushes you toward Blue Oval partners, I know...

Two years ago I would have said the same thing. Leaf owners were getting jokes about the plug long before NACS came along. You get used to it.

My wife has a Mach-E and I've got a Lightning, so we're on the same "wrong side" as you. Honestly the adapter has been the easy part. For us the planning gets easier once you stop letting the car's nav do it. The Ford nav will happily send you to some 2-stall Electrify America site behind a Walmart, or worse, a dealer charger. Some of those are set at $0.80/kWh or more, and half the time the card reader was never activated. So I plan in ABRP or just the Tesla map and only use the Ford nav for battery preconditioning on the way in. Down here in Georgia the Buc-ee's and Pilot/Flying J sites are also really solid, and you don't need an adapter for those. After about the third trip you stop thinking about which plug you have and just think about where the good sites are. That's no different from how it was with gas -- you learned which exits had the clean bathrooms.

There's a lot of pro-Tesla bias on here. EA has been fine for me, max wait about 20 minutes. Just keep a couple of apps on your phone and you're good.

Ioniq 5 with adapters here. Got 97 kW at a Supercharger last month. I don't feel like I'm on the wrong side

@ray_hutchins ha, yes the nav does that constantly. Didn't know you could just use it for preconditioning, I'll try that next trip.

Mach-E owner here too and I would not call it the wrong side. The car is 400 volt so it was never going to pull crazy numbers anyway and I see about the same at a Supercharger as I did at EA, just with way less stall roulette. Only real annoyance for me is the adapter is one more thing to remember to put back in the frunk. Left it at home once and that trip was a lot less fun.

Keep the adapter in the frunk and never take it out. If you treat it as part of the car you won't forget it at home.

CCS1 was always the weak link. The latch and the handshake were what failed, not the car. Moving to NACS is the fix, so being in the middle of the switch for a few years doesn't put you on the wrong side.