I am going to buy an electric car in 1-2 years so I have been doing some research and watching videos. Every non Tesla road-trip video I have seen has problems trying to charge because of infrastructure issues. Things like charger not working, working very slow, payment not working, etc…

Is the Tesla network that much better?

  • Etrigone@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Parts of the US, much better. Like, more east coast & central US. Others, like big cities especially out west, generally better but not as severe. Tesla sells both the car & network, whereas others don’t so there’s all sorts of disjoint actions (more cars sold but not enough chargers, vs earlier when more chargers but just not that many cars). Tesla can suffer from this as well but they tend to be tighter tied and frankly, they’re solving an easier problem.

    That said it will depend on your use case. If you only really do charging at home the public network may be irrelevant. I’m fine with the non-Tesla network with a few exceptions - the people camping out on EA at 85% as they have free charging and “why not go until full?” - and don’t travel extensively.