The EV charging station (i.e. not at my home) situation is abysmal. I get the idea is that eventually every parking lot you're in has one, but there are still c

The EV charging station (i.e. not at my home) situation is abysmal. I get the idea is that eventually every parking lot you're in has one, but there are still concerns. Here was my recent experience in Houston: - staying at a family members apartment building. cool I see there is a chargepoint station in the building. the building admin (1) didn't know if there was one (2) where it was (3) how to get access to it. finally another admin told me where it was. Okay now I need a chargepoint app. Downloaded. Oops, that chargepoint account needs to be linked to a resident of the apartment. Fail, on to the next. - Okay now I go to a movie and turns out there is a 50 kW charger in the parking. It's an EVGo. I drive up because I have no way of knowing whether it's being used or not. Parking lot is super busy and guess what - the EVGo charging block is just slammed in the middle of the standard parking lot and 3 of 4 parking spots that the power cables can reach are consumed by non-EVs. Only one car is actually charging. - So I'm now 20 min late for my movie. I find a 6 kW charging station (24 hours to get 50% of my battery) on the other side of the building, and its in a corporate parking garage. I use the first chargepoint and says the connector isn't working. Turns out there is a small piece of plastic that has broken on 2 of the 4 charging cables. So I'm on my 3rd cable when it finally works. I'm now charging at a measily 6 kW. 2 min later I get a message saying "if you stay past 7pm, the charge goes from $1.50/hr to $25/hr"...wtf? - Temperature drops to below freezing overnight and now my battery is degrading quite a bit. I have to stop at a Supercharger to get home to Austin. Awesome...250 kW tesla supercharger, will only take an estimated 8 minutes. Nope - it's super busy and turns out that it can only deliver 45 kW because there are 20 other Tesla's using the service. So now it's 25 minutes to charge my battery.