EV owner 6 years here, rented an EV in Portugal and was a disaster. Nearly stranded at a rest stop, spent 2 hours trying to charge, apps wouldn't accept paymen

EV owner 6 years here, rented an EV in Portugal and was a disaster. Nearly stranded at a rest stop, spent 2 hours trying to charge, apps wouldn't accept payment, apps wouldn't activate Ionity charger, spent an hour on long distance cellphone call to Ionity call center where they manually activated a charge for me after great difficulty. The other thing for people who think they can plan around it is that remember with typical rental agency you have no idea exactly which EV model they are going to give you at check in. So could be the one with 220/240/280mi highway range. And then they might hand it to you with the battery at 80% full. Your plans to safely get to your destination on 100% of the 280mi battery may be quickly spoiled by getting a a 240mi EV at 80% full and being -90mi short.