No Public Charger, No Problem: Some EV enthusiasts let strangers juice up at their house:
A few blocks away was a cute yellow duplex, again with no visible charging station and no sign that anyone was home. We dithered about the etiquette of knocking for so long that a neighbor came out and asked if we needed help, in the "Do I need to call the police about you?" kind of way. We explained that we'd been sent by a charging-network app, and he smiled forgivingly and suggested a nearby grocery store.
We tried once more, in a rougher neighborhood near Muskegon, one with gangs of wild turkeys strutting around overgrown lawns. The address had a Chevy Bolt in the driveway but no obvious charging capability. Feeling guilty about chickening out on the last two, I knocked on a peeling white door with a broken pane of glass. No answer, and I was glad.
We gave up and used some of our remaining 40 miles to get to a public ChargePoint unit. Both plugs were in use—one by a Volkswagen ID.4, the other a Polestar. The Polestar driver showed up a few minutes later, and we claimed the open slot just before a Hyundai Kona Electric and a Ford Mustang Mach-E joined the parking-lot party. The driver of the Kona checked the charge on the VW and ranted about the rudeness of the owner. The Kona owners were on vacation and had been on the road for a month.
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