{"id":355218,"date":"2026-06-06T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:03:05","slug":"when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"When public charging stations aren\u2019t so public, and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Drivers opening an EV charging app for the first time today will be presented with thousands of so-called \u201cpublic\u201d chargers at local car dealers. Once they arrive, however, the store\u2019s customers, store hours, security gates, and Wild West pricing can turn what should be a routine charging stop into a frustrating ordeal. For first-time EV drivers, that doesn\u2019t just reflect poorly on the dealer \u2013 it reflects poorly on the EV, itself. And we need to fix it. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/06\/06\/when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/when-public-charging-stations-arent-so-public-and-why-it-matters\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":355219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}