Electric Vehicles Owners Drop Truth Bomb About Charging: ‘Logistical Nightmare’

A new report is showcasing the massive headaches that many electric vehicle owners are having when it comes to charging their cars.

On Sunday, ABC News published a report in which EV owners detailed the problems that they have been having when it comes to finding chargers for their EVs.

Steve Hammes, one of the people featured in the report, leased a Hyundai Kona Electric SUV for his 17-year-old daughter in the hopes that she would be able to save money for college by not spending it on gas.

But now they are facing the dilemma of making sure that their daughter can find available chargers as she drives all the way from Albany, New York, where she lives, to Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

“We’re going through the planning process of how easily Maddie can get from Albany to Gettysburg and where she can charge the car,” Hammes said.

Indeed, Hammes is not the only one to report this. There have been many stories of people taking long trips with EVs and having to constantly think about where they are going to stop to charge their vehicles — sometimes giving more thought to that than where they will be able to eat.

(It’s worth noting that Telsa makes this easier by integrating charging stations with its navigation system.)

But that was not the only case of EV trouble that ABC News detailed in the article. It also told the stories of Car and Driver editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga and EV owner Sharon Bragg, both of whom said the batteries in vehicles they were driving — a BMW i7 and a Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, respectively — depleted faster in colder weather and had to be charged more frequently.

Again, their stories are backed up by other EV owners. During the winter storms over the last few months, EVs proved very unreliable in cold weather, having to be charged more frequently.

Further, the article details that Bragg and Jared Rosenholtz, another EV owner, have constantly dealt with dead charging cords, cords that can’t reach the car and long wait times.