I will never again rent an EV and I have no idea how people deal with this

[Anonymous]

So, I'll start with I know nothing about EVs. I don't own one. I rented a car for a trip that was an EV. The rental guy offered me a car that wasn't fully charged. I was like, oh no big deal that's fine.

Actually it's not. I had this wrong impression that somehow it doesn't take 6-8 hours to charge. Ugh. So, so wrong.

Finding EV chargers is so-so depending on where you are. Certainly not one that is convenient for 8 hours.

Anyway let this serve as a warning to others. Don't rent a EV.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing this. I don’t want to spend eight hours charging a car. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

[Anonymous]

I am too anxiety prone to ever consider renting, owning, being driven in, or driving an EV. Hard pass right now.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I think your issue is you know nothing about EVs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

It sounds like you have been using AC chargers. For fast charging, you need to use DC charging. What kind of car is it?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

It sounds like you have been using AC chargers. For fast charging, you need to use DC charging. What kind of car is it?

No idea, but to be clear these are commercial and not outlets. Public ones that you pay for and available on the street and in garage.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

It sounds like you have been using AC chargers. For fast charging, you need to use DC charging. What kind of car is it?

It's a KIA

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

It sounds like you have been using AC chargers. For fast charging, you need to use DC charging. What kind of car is it?

It's a KIA

Okay, look for chargers from Electrify America, EVgo, Chargepoint (but only DC), or Blink. These all have DC fast chargers that can probably charge your car in 30 minutes or less. Don't charge above 80% because from 80 to 100 the cars charge very slowly. It is better to charge multiple times if necessary rather than going above 80%.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I think your issue is you know nothing about EVs.

Exactly! Morons are always so gleeful to share their morons.

The problem is the rental agency not giving a EV 101 talk to their customers.

[Anonymous]

We’re on our third Tesla. Chargers are everywhere. We go on road trips for travel sports weekly. I get 330 miles at a Tesla charger in 42 minutes. I either charge when we stop for food or a bathroom break or when we park at night.

[Anonymous]

I’m an EV owner. You picked the wrong type of charger. There are essentially three types: 1. The very slow type they you can plug in at home into a standard outlet. These can take like 20 hours for a full charge. 2 Public chargers that are slow. Might take 10-12 hours for a full charge. These can be installed at home but need a special outlet usually by an electrician. The outlet looks like a dryer outlet. 3 Fast chargers that can charge in about an hour.

Almost all public charging apps let’s you search for one of the latter two types and filter by type. You just need to know which kind you’re looking for. The fast ones are generally called “DC Fast” chargers.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you had a bad experience.

I LOVE my EV and will never, ever go back to a gas car. And we've driven it on long trips.

BTW it takes 30-45 minutes to fully charge ours to 100%. Sounds like you charged it at a slow level 1 charger. I'm sure that was frustrating.

This was a commercial charger so no idea how it was so slow. I'm at commercial charger #2 so we'll see if it's any better. The chargers aren't marked in any way that I understand to tell oh its fast or slow.

I could see how an EV, when always at home each day is fine, but on the road that's impossible to predict having one available for several hours.

It sounds like you have been using AC chargers. For fast charging, you need to use DC charging. What kind of car is it?

It's a KIA

Okay, look for chargers from Electrify America, EVgo, Chargepoint (but only DC), or Blink. These all have DC fast chargers that can probably charge your car in 30 minutes or less. Don't charge above 80% because from 80 to 100 the cars charge very slowly. It is better to charge multiple times if necessary rather than going above 80%.

Coming back to report that, nope, second charger is only doing about the same. 5 hours = 60 miles of range. So I'm estimating if "empty" it would take 12 hours to fully charge.

[Anonymous]

You were supposed to go to a supercharger
With speeds of 200+