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Electric cars
Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 23 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Chargers are hard to find and often occupiedUnreviewed
20132026- Chargers hard to find, often occupied, and charging stops cause long detours2024-01-04
- Charging on cross-country trips takes hours, leaving drivers stuck waiting at motels or truck stops2023-09-11
- Charging is frustrating to deal with every day2023-04-23
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 22 complaints
- Glove box and charge port door open only via touchscreen or delayed electronic activation, not simply2026-05-29
- Must enable full data sharing in the car, then re-disable it, to charge remotely2025-11-30
- Most car mechanisms moved to touch screens instead of physical buttons2025-07-08
- Changing music or skipping podcasts requires taking eyes off the road2024-06-14
- Giant touch screens make cars hard to operate and feel ridiculous to drive2024-05-22
- Opening windows requires fiddling with a touchscreen instead of simple physical buttons2024-01-31
- Some EVs took deposits and announced dates but couldn't actually be bought when wanted2024-01-04
- Chargers hard to find, often occupied, and charging stops cause long detours2024-01-04
- Voice commands are inaccurate and require looking at the console to confirm2023-11-03
- Car rolls backwards unnoticed, and hill hold features confuse drivers about what is happening2023-10-04
- Car rolls back unexpectedly on hills, hard to notice when it starts slowly2023-10-04
- Charging on cross-country trips takes hours, leaving drivers stuck waiting at motels or truck stops2023-09-11
- Regen amount is buried in a menu, hard to adjust quickly2023-07-23
- Passenger's controls are disabled by motion, frustrating them2023-07-18
- Charging is frustrating to deal with every day2023-04-23
- Loading another driver's profile unexpectedly switches off one-pedal mode, so the car rolls2022-11-28
- Touch controls and screen-based climate settings force drivers to look away from the road2022-04-21
- Creep behaviour can't be turned off on some cars, forcing unwanted movement2022-01-31
- Adjusting cabin temperature through the dash UI is unsafe and distracting2021-01-08
- Range gauge showed 40 miles left but battery died on a climb2019-01-17
- Car is unusable while low and recharging, with no workaround2017-05-31
- Forgetting to plug in costs a long wait, unlike quick gas refills2014-12-31