Tttait wrote:I went to an EA site in San Diego yesterday, and it failed miserably, on two levels. First, the chip readers in the pay stations don't work, but when swiping the card the card does read so eventually I figured that out.
Yes the charge cords are too short, barely long enough to reach the the plug on the Bolt, but once you are plugged in and get the card to read, on all 4 of the units the charger failed to start the session due to a pilot communication error.
This freaked me out a little because I use CCS so rarely I was concerned that perhaps something was actually broken with the car and it was going to take me 5 hours of charging at a standard station to get home. I drove to a nearby Chargepoint station and tried their CCS charger, and it worked perfectly. The terrible experience led me straight here to see if there is an issue with EA and the Bolt, or Chevrolet in general, and guess what, they suck.
Don't use the card readers. As for NFC, isn't that still the card reader? Avoid it. Use their app. Search
https://insideevs.com/news/389891/exclu ... solutions/ for credit card.
As for fail, did you lift the handle to support it until the plug's locked to the car? If not, it'll fail with a communication error. EA finally made this video on that
https://youtu.be/VSuiG4YfRfA. I learned of it from
https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/ea-ma ... ble.36757/.
Also, before you bother going to any public charging, you should check out its score on Plugshare and look for recent check-ins.