Road-trip fast charging: how often does it actually go wrong? / Anxious planner who hasn't been stranded yet and wants to know how often chargers are full or broken

Anxious planner who hasn't been stranded yet and wants to know how often chargers are full or broken

What people actually reported
EVgo charge from 2% took a full hour; trip judged infeasible
“I ran mine down to 2% this week to test it and an EVgo fast charge took a full hour.”
@ruben_ostro
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Nearly every charger had a problem on the return leg
“On my one road trip, nearly every charger had some problem on the way back, and only one worked cleanly. Nothing stranded me, but I wouldn't count on a single site being up on an empty leg.”
@hal_vickery
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Trip worked thanks to a DC fast charger near the destination
“I did 385 miles from southeastern PA out to a rural area in winter, and there's remarkably little out there. It worked because there was a DC fast charger near where my hosts live, so I could arrive and top up without relying on an empty leg.”
@dan_kowalec
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Only non-Tesla charger on route to mom's is long broken
“It's the only non-Tesla one out there and it's been broken for years, with orange cones in front of three of the four.”
@rcoburn_22
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Charger reliability was the biggest headache in rental EVs
“When I rented EVs, charger reliability was the biggest headache for me.”
@tmarsh_09
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Questions still raised in the forum