uring a recent road trip, I watched the driver of a $160,000-plus Lucid Air attempt to charge his car at a broken EV charger, in the rain, behind a gas station off Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Sacramento. I was inside a fast-food restaurant across the parking lot as the poor guy struggled to connect the charger to his car. He repositioned his Air twice so the Combined Charging System (CCS) chargers on each side could reach the port—unaware the system itself was broken. There were no clear signs the charger was offline. The screen didn’t show an
Ford, GM, and Rivian’s blindingly obvious move.
Jul 21, 2023
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