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Electric vehicle chargers are proliferating in Southern states as fast food restaurants, stores and other businesses try to lure customers.
Electric vehicle chargers are proliferating in Southern states as fast food restaurants, stores and other businesses try to lure customers.
I wouldn’t say “a lot” but it depends on what you mean. It seems like 80% or so support non Tesla but many of those have the stalls with the short cables. You can always make those work but it sometimes involves blocking two spots (which Tesla officially approves but in practice may be awkward with other users around). The stations that truly don’t support non Tesla are super old ones at this point and they’re bringing new stations online with cables long enough for everyone.
All that being said, other brands of chargers are popping up everywhere with equal reliability to Tesla so it’s pretty much a non-issue at this point.
I think the issue is that I know where all the old Superchargers are around me and just assumed they would work. I bought my Ioniq used and they only gave me 20% when I rolled off the lot, so when the first couple chargers I tried didn’t work, I had some range anxiety that I hadn’t experienced in a long time after 7 years of EV ownership.
Luckily I found a level 3 CCS1 charger and got enough to get me home. Back to overnight level 2 charging and daily driving is a breeze again.
20% from the lot is insane!