Someone drove 600 miles in an EV and didn't complain once.
That used to be impossible.
Now it's just… Tuesday.
Here's the story of how America's EV charging network quietly stopped sucking.
In 2023, one journalist drove an Audi e-tron to Maine.
Round trip: 350 miles.
Result: chaos.
Imagine if gas stations worked like this.
So he wrote an EV charging "bill of rights." Seven fixes the industry desperately needed.
Same guy. Same Audi e-tron. Nearly double the distance — 600+ miles to Montreal and back.
This time?
Nearly flawless.
Six chargers at a Rivian station in New Hampshire. All six working. No lines. Grocery store next door. 140+ kilowatts delivered, no app required — just tapped his credit card.
Only hiccup the whole trip? One card reader in Canada. Fixed with a $20 app top-up.
Every charging stop: ~20 minutes. Timed perfectly with lunch breaks.
They never once waited on the car.
Here's the part that should make skeptics sit up.
The data backs the anecdote:
That's not a fluke. That's an industry that got its act together.
Over half of prospective EV buyers still say charging anxiety is their #1 hesitation.
But the fear is now running ahead of the reality.
The infrastructure everyone assumed was broken… quietly fixed itself.
Gaps still exist. Chargers still fail sometimes. Nobody's claiming perfection.
But the gap between perception and experience has never been this wide.
Someone should tell the holdouts what they're missing.
That's all for now!
