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CHAdeMO chargers
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with CHAdeMO chargers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Every charger has different UI; charger wouldn't release plug after session ended2024-09-19
- Hard to find a working, unoccupied CHAdeMO charger at stations2024-05-22
- CHAdeMO chargers are hard to find; connector is very difficult to use2022-11-11
- Five different poorly designed charger and plug types make charging confusing2021-01-28
- Single-unit stations are often occupied, broken, or slow, making road trips unreliable2015-12-11