So here's the second charging frustration today. Bear in mind this is literally the first time I've ever charged away from home. So I'm a n00b learning it all for the first time. I'm not looking for help, I'm venting my spleen.
I am visiting family and friends and my #EV gets about 230mi (370km) on a full charge. My mom's house is about 205 miles. So I roll into her house with 24 miles range left.
I go to my friend's house and I have like 15 miles range left. I charge off his house (level 1) for a couple hours. Back to 24 miles. I look up on EVGo and find 2 chargers, both open, with the CCS1 port that I need. I drive over to them and I have 15 miles left when I get there. Both say chademo is available, but CCS1 is not. Thanks a fucking lot, EVGo. I call their support number because I don't have enough juice to hunt all over the city for something that actually does what the web site says it does.
They find me one that's not far away that really does have CCS1 working. I roll in with my car warning "Battery exhausted, power output reduced." It was estimating 8 miles of range left.
So I dropped it off, went to dinner. Ended up at 73% and all is well. I'll need to do the same thing tomorrow on my way home.
Infuriating that the EVGo web site says something is available and offers a certain connector when... it doesn't. That web site basically has one job.
Paco Hope
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2026-08-09 02:16:39 UTC
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