General Discussion

Consumers shouldn't worry about not being able to charge an EV quickly and less expensively. They shouldn't have to worry about battery longevity or maintenance.

We rented an EV last year while visiting my in-laws in New York and New Jersey. We ended up abandoning the vehicle with a dead battery somewhere in Queens and having it towed back to the airport.

The problem? We couldn't find a charging station, and the apps one downloads to find them are full of misinformation. We'd go to an indicated site and find an empty lot, or a block of apartments, or some other business. No charging station. And no one we asked at these places had any idea what we were talking about. There were charging stations at service plazas along the Garden State Parkway, but most of them were out of order, and there would be multiple cars waiting to use the few that worked.

This wasn't a Tesla, and I acknowledge that the infrastructure for Teslas is somewhat more robust. But - and please understand, I know the future is in EVs - we need to be working just as hard at installing the infrastructure needed to operate these vehicles for anything beyond local driving if they're to succeed.