As I have indicated before, I have no option to plug in the car (2025 XSE Premium) where I currently live, so am dependent on charging stations. (besides occasionally getting a tiny bit of charge from the solar charging roof.) Therefore yesterday, totally out of charge, when I saw a charging station a couple blocks away from where I had a doctor appointment, I thought I would get some charge while at the doctor? It was an EvGo charging station. They had cables with two different kinds of connectors, both much larger than the one for my car. (Not the Tesla connector either.) So I could not charge there. This also happened recently when I wanted to charge at chargers within a Von's supermarket parking lot. Only one connector, similar to one of those at EvGo, too large to fit in my car. As I think the kind in our cars is the most common type of connector (not counting Tesla), why do some charging stations not have a cable that that will fit it? Seems they are losing business that way? (If many cars cannot use their station?) Can one obtain some kind of adapter that would enable one to use those different chargers? Thanks in advance. BTW, speaking of charging while shopping, etc., it is aggravating that Whole Foods (at least here in California) no longer have chargers in their parking lots! (Bezos kissing up to Trump?)
Your more than likely running into DC fast chargers in So. Cal.. IMHO; it's unwise to hook-up using an adapter to something you don't know what the output is. That's the reason they are different connectors; to prevent stupid stuff from happening. If it's a popular charging spot, there should be a J1772 connector somewhere. On my car and my driving style; I've calculated that paying more than $0.38 Kwh is the same as paying for gasoline. That calculation was done @ $4 a gallon of gasoline. In my experience, most charging stations charge way north of that and stack fees on top if it. This also doesn't take into account how long you'll need to hook-up - since these cars are slow chargers compared to other modern cars. Some will add a parking time fee that ticks off every 30 minutes. Your car, your wallet, do whatever you like....
public charging is complicated. you should see the confusion over on the chevy bolt forum. if you want to learn about public charging, you'll have to spend a lot of time with google, it's a steep learning curve
