I went to an EA site in San Diego yesterday, and it failed miserably, on two levels. First, the chip readers in the pay stations don't work, but when swiping the card the card does read so eventually I figured that out.
Yes the charge cords are too short, barely long enough to reach the the plug on the Bolt, but once you are plugged in and get the card to read, on all 4 of the units the charger failed to start the session due to a pilot communication error.
This freaked me out a little because I use CCS so rarely I was concerned that perhaps something was actually broken with the car and it was going to take me 5 hours of charging at a standard station to get home. I drove to a nearby Chargepoint station and tried their CCS charger, and it worked perfectly. The terrible experience led me straight here to see if there is an issue with EA and the Bolt, or Chevrolet in general, and guess what, they suck.
You can likely get your card to work if you swipe, but I'm curious if you can then get the system to charge your car. EA is so expensive compared to Chargepoint I will likely never try again, but it would be nice to know if they are fixing their problems or not.
By the way - I went down to San Diego to pick up the ultimate solution for the Bolt having crappy seats. I hope to have an update on that in a few weeks.
