Greater adoption isn’t going to make the grid unreliable, but it will change how our power is produced and delivered.

Honestly, is anyone surprised that VW’s chargers are as reliable as its vehicles?

I don’t believe Tesla ever had the reliability issues that plague the other providers.  So to claim it’s simply because they got a head start is false.  

Tesla is 5 years ahead of all other charging networks BECAUSE they started 5 years earlier. They also have the advantage of building their own chargers to work with their own cars.

It’s not just EA’s, it’s everyones

Former ChargePoint employee here. It’s not just EA’s, it’s everyones.

The war and other market conditions really F’d up supply chains for the last two years and trying to keep chargers online when people break/vandalize them is extremely difficult to pull off at a large scale.

I don’t know how to solve this issue, but…

This is another reason I’m holding off on EVs. I need to be able to pull up to any charger and whip my debit card out and charge my car just like practically any gas station in existence or it’s a no go for me.

I was unaware that Electrify America was part of Volkswagen’s detention. The fact that these stations do not work makes a lot more sense now - just as how the penmanship for when they had to write “I will not cheat on diesel emissions” 100 times was somewhat subpar.

They do need to be held accountable - but as it’s been documented, their remit was to make them then keep an insane level of ‘always working’ at something like 95%. If they’d met that 95% there was a small incentive for doing so, but there was no penalty for not hitting the target. So they’ve just decided not to....

I hate that I feel this way. My first car was a CJ7. I proposed to my wife in front of a 98 Cherokee in 2 feet of snow. I brought my firstborn home from the hospital in a shiny new Patriot. I was first in line to lease a 4xe, and evangelized for the idea of running full zero emmisions in a 4 door convertible. Making a…

I’m still unbelievably mad that we never got the Renegade 4xe here. Missed opportunity for a good little PHEV.

Subaru got rid of the turbo forester :\. It was basically a lifted wrx (Foz XT trims of yesteryear).

I’m not even sure why Chrysler still exists, so it may simply be part of the (apparent) plan to kill off the whole brand. 

FWD Jeeps and FWD BMWs belong in the same circle of hell.

I’m still baffled that Stellantis never figured out to take that platform and crank out a competitor to the Buick Encore for Chrysler. The Chrysler name still has resonance for the Boomers that were buying up Encores like crazy.

AWD wasn’t even standard. Mine was front wheel drive, but the incentives also brought it down to $17k new, which the price market they should have been competing in all along. It was great for the econobox box it was, but I couldn’t imagine hitting that starting MSRP of $30k for anything less than a Trailhawk version.

Yeah, my time was only a couple days total.  

I think they’re godawful. I have an acquaintance who had one that really acted up and was on the verge of needing a full engine replacement at 66K miles.

Thankfully, he replaced it with a ‘19 Forester Sport, and couldn’t be happier.

As a person who works in marketing and product development, I can promise you that there were several meetings, extensive email chains, and likely an in-house counsel’s opinion on “melty” vs. “melted”.

My guess is because “melted cheese” sounds like what you get on/with nachos. They’re trying to differentiate between liquid cheese sauce and a slice of cheese that has been cooked on a burger.