A man stands next to a row of charging towers at a Tesla Supercharger station at the corner of 14th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica on April 17. The real headache of going electric is finding an available, functional public charger when traveling. (Something that I have witnessed with distressing regularity at public chargers over the past year.) Even worse, both locations were within view of significantly larger Tesla charging stations taunting me with rows of mostly empty chargers — 24 in one spot, 20 in another. And starting this year, most new EVs will come equipped with Tesla charging ports — or rather what is now called the North America Charging Standard port.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024 19:57 UTC