- WHEN
- 2026-03-14 · 14:22
- WHERE
- Cary, NC
- ATTEMPTED
- 62 kWh @ 350 kW
- DELIVERED
- 0.00 kWh
- CHARGED
- $4.12 session fee
“Three bays, none worked. Drove 14 miles to another network.”
For drivers · By drivers
Electric vehicles are no longer new. The driver experience still is. The Electric Driver Association represents EV drivers as consumers, focused on fair pricing, reliable charging, and real-world solutions that make driving electric easier and more dependable so the burden doesn't fall on the driver alone.
Today's EV landscape is dominated by: automakers, charging networks, utilities, and policy and advocacy groups. What's missing? A credible, data-driven association focused solely on EV drivers as consumers.
The mission
To represent electric-vehicle drivers as consumers, advocating for fair pricing, reliable charging, transparent information, and practical standards that improve the real-world EV ownership experience across the United States.
Our commitment: to be independent, non-partisan, calm, credible and evidenced-based. EVs can be better. They will only get there if drivers have a voice.
What we stand for
The association is organized around five public commitments, each one naming a real problem and a concrete piece of work.
Public DC fast-charge sessions failed at roughly 1 in 5 attempts in 2024 (JD Power). Uptime is a contract drivers never signed.
What we doWe collect station-level reliability data from members and publish it so failure patterns are visible to drivers and to operators.
Per-kWh prices vary widely across networks for the same energy. Idle fees, session fees, and plug-and-charge surprises stack invisibly.
What we doWe track pricing across networks and publish a comparative scorecard so a driver can know what a session will cost before they swipe.
What we doWe publish what drivers actually pay versus what they were quoted, with the methodology and the raw counts alongside.
What we doWe aggregate the driver-side evidence and bring it to the rooms where decisions are made: regulators, legislators, standards bodies.
What we doWe advocate where driver outcomes change, not where headlines happen, and we measure whether the changes actually helped.
What we are not
Drivers come first. Always. The association will not accept sponsorship, endorsement, or directional influence from the parties it holds to account.
What drivers tell us
Real sessions, real numbers, real locations. The first national survey expands a sample like this into the driver-side dataset the EV conversation does not currently have. We focus on facts, data, and lived experience. No hype. No politics. No capture.
NoteThe networks, stations, locations, figures, and quotes shown for each charging location below are illustrative only and do not represent specific reported sessions.
“Three bays, none worked. Drove 14 miles to another network.”
“Waited 45 minutes behind a plugged-in car with no owner in sight.”
“Idle fee began 30 seconds after the session ended. I was in the car.”
“Cheapest charge of the month. The bar should be 'reliable,' not 'lucky.'”
“Throttled to 8 kW for the last 20 minutes. The app reported 'normal.'”
“Hardware fault reported six weeks ago. Still listed as available.”
Coverage
From sample data points to full-fledged representation. Your participation in the full survey helps expand this data into all fifty states. We are aggregating real-world driver data and will publish clear, neutral reports. Together we will identify systemic failures, and represent drivers where decisions are made.
Join the association
Sign up for the first national driver survey. Your answers, with those of other drivers, become the founding dataset of the association, published openly with methodology alongside.