This article happens to be a manufactured controversy pile of crap. My wife's car is the exact vehicle he rented except XC40 recharge version, same color, 2023 model year with the lower range and everything. All you have to do is put in your destination and it will tell you when and where to charge and give you options, like the Lucid does except even better as it's GoogleMaps based, you know, the navigation app that literally everyone including this journalist knows how to use. In fact he could have put in his entire route the entire time he was there, but he must have deliberately done it wrong and not chosen fast chargers, as on the route he traveled there is a Chargepoint, a Shell Recharge, and guess fucking what, a Tesla Magic Dock in Monticello that's been there since the beginning of this month (2 weeks before this article was published)and it appears another Volvo XC 40 EV owner got 150kw on it just yesterday according to PlugShare. I don't even know what this dumbass was doing, he must have not had a story so he put in his destination and then deleted the stops the Volvo was recommending. I've never seen the car recommend as first priority a 6.2kw slow charger, it even tells you whether they're fast chargers or not. Chargepoint is also Volvo's preferred network so there's no way it wouldn't have recommended that in the navigation. He could have still had the story, as he would have had to stop a total of 3 times for the round trip from Minneapolis airport Hertz to the SD state line (he says where he went was right over the border and passed through Santa Clara so it's easy to map this guy's route out), and that Chargepoint charger is 50kw which is annoying but then he could have written it cost him $4.50 for his charging session there (that one is 0.09/kw according to PlugShare). I get sooooooo sick of disingenuous journalists sabotaging a scenario so they can get a shocking story. Jerk.
