It's a shame the rental cars are giving EVs a bad name.

Sure, it should be easier to charge things, rent a tesla and problem solved, does route planning and no hassle charging at superchargers. Rent a chevy bolt and... yeah... ask the renting company how to charge at least and where they recommend or choose something else.

All that is shrunk enormously for electric fueling. So yeah it's gonna be inconvenient. I don't see how they can fast forward so many decades, but yeah they def could improve things.

Irrelevant. If you're taking on the incumbent you better have done your homework and made the experience as frictionless as possible. There's no technological reason recharging an EV has to be as difficult as it is, but companies are completely addicted to building a walled garden around you and selling your data.

But gas stations and gas refueling had the advantage of coming up in a world before that was possible. So BP, Exxon, etc. never built all that stuff and now that they have a product they sell without doing that, they can't wall everyone in. If gas refueling was invented now, they would.

I guess I'm just saying it's a nascent industry with less volume, less usage, and fewer companies and competition. No wonder it's not as smooth as a process with much larger and competitive economy of scale