Topic: Here’s What to Expect at Public Fast Chargers in Ontario

[AutoTrader.ca]

Spoiler alert: It might be smart to lower your expectations because the public charging network needs some help.
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[Fobroader]

Huh.....colour me surprised, the charging network is not at the point where one cannot get away from charging at home, weird.

[sailor723]

Hopefully the system will grow and improve rapidly in the coming years. In the meantime if I was to buy any type of electric vehicle it would be a plug-in hybrid with a honest 50+ km range

[ktm525]

I'm surprised meth heads haven't stolen every charger cable. There must be copper in there.

[Firm]

Well done article exposing the realities of dealing with an EV as primary transport.

I only have one experience attempting to charge at a public station and it mirrors those in the article. I was driving a PHEV Jeep and went to a meeting at an office tower that had public charging station, so I figured I'd try it. After begrudgingly downloading the app, setting up my credit card in the app, and plugging in the Jeep, I just kept getting a "user not authorized" error on the machine. App seemed to be working, but wouldn't initiate the charge either....After another 5 minutes or so of screwing around with it I gave up. Good thing the Jeep was PHEV and I had plenty of gas 

[Allen]

I'll stick with gas thanks 

[rrocket]

It costs less to use gas than it does to use public charging for the Prius.

That's my problem....