Yikes... That's why I would never drive a CCS EV on long road trips or areas where there are limited chargers. Even my experience from NorCal to SoCal back in November 2022 wasn't that great.
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Charging line 18+ cars at Quartzite AZ EA on 11/26/22
On plugshare there are now pictures of the long line of cars waiting to charge on 11/13/22 and 11/26/22. This is the only EA station between phoenix and Palm Springs so it is vital. There are only 4 dispensers there. I counted 18 cars in line but there might be more cars behind the last white car in line in the distance. I have charged there but there was no line then.
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I’ve charged in Quartzite several times and this EA location is really bad. Cramped, no space to queue, and typically only 2-3 of the 4 chargers working. Meanwhile there is a Tesla supercharger on the other side of the highway with 10-20 stalls and plenty of parking. This crappy EA station is probably responsible for selling more Teslas than Elon 
From last weekend at this site
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Hopefully that supercharger gets the mod to allow non-Tesla charging. Seems like that upgrade would pay for itself in short order.I’ve charged in Quartzite several times and this EA location is really bad. Cramped, no space to queue, and typically only 2-3 of the 4 chargers working. Meanwhile there is a Tesla supercharger on the other side of the highway with 10-20 stalls and plenty of parking. This crappy EA station is probably responsible for selling more Teslas than Elon
The thing about Quartzite is that although it's an easy case to make that EA should build a "super site" at that location with 10 chargers, due to there being so few fallback options around, the same can be said for dozens of their other interstate locations spread 100 miles apart.
Quartzite seems like an obvious super-location now since it links two EV-friendly areas, but where the heck is EVGo or anybody else?
EA started strong and covered the nation with 4-post sites, making getting around actually possible. But yeah, they've got the data now, the EVs are on the road in numbers that weren't there a scant 18 months ago. Unfortunately Quartzite does not look like an easily upgradable site because there is underground fuel storage on both sides of the existing stalls, but that Love's has a dozen parking spaces on the opposite side of their parking lot that seem to be out of the way of everything but a propane tank.
Thankfully when I rolled through there (18 months ago) all four dispensers worked and I was the only EV.
Most of them are in the NEVI program that each state controls, and they keep revising, so that makes mapping it complex like this thread:
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State NEVI plans
As of today all states were required to submit their plans to spend the charging infrastructure money. I thought a central thread to post links to your states plans would be handy. Can’t find mine so far.
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