I was an early-ish EV adopter but had gone back to PHEVs and ICE vehicles for the last five years or so. As of a month ago, I’m back in an EV (and love it), bu

I was an early-ish EV adopter but had gone back to PHEVs and ICE vehicles for the last five years or so. As of a month ago, I’m back in an EV (and love it), but it feels to me like the public charging situation is worse than it was five years ago. Several of the L2 destination chargers I used to use while shopping are gone, and the DC fast charging map covering the most probable destinations in a few hundred mile radius still has some weird gaps that the market hasn’t filled. Range has gotten good enough that these shortcomings should be manageable, but if I didn’t live in a single family home with access to a 70A circuit for charging, it’d be way more of a headache. I wonder both how the non-Tesla fast charging infrastructure has remained so bad for so long, and how Tesla was able to afford building such a robust one (plus giving away quite a bit of free charging, up until not so many years back, no?).