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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents::Several state governors are fighting fear mongering as they attempt to reduce transportation emissions in their states.

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

As a EV owner I don't worry about range that much but I'm constantly infuriated by the shitty charging experience. Charging at home is great but road trips are a constant pain in the ass. Let's face it, most people are not interested in switching to EV at all and will find an excuse until ICE cars are banned (I'm looking at you people with two family cars and private garage). You want to convince the people actually thinking about it? Make charging work.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The experience is pretty fine at the Tesla superchargers

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but we all know what the issues with Tesla are.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think other brands can charge there soon.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 6 points 1 year ago

I've just tried registering in their app and got and error. After finally entering (without any confirmation that my account was creates) the charger next to me does not appear in the app. It's a big charging station for multiple cars and the app says it does not exist. Overall experience: 3/10.

There's a Zunder charger next to it but their entire infra just collapse. The app is down, the page is down and the charger that admits card payments is unresponsive. Everyone run buy an EV...

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