"What is your name?" asked OpConnect's AI phone assistant.
"Your mother," said a frustrated Gen Xer.
It didn't accept that. It didn't accept "Nikki Nikki" either. Twenty minutes of going round the phone tree later, there was still no charge at Electric Avenue in downtown Portland.
Level 2 charging that actually works is getting harder to find, and that leaves older EVs and most e-motos feeling like second-class citizens.