PlugShare 4+

This is the one app that consistently tells me about charger locations and provides details to find them from any/all brands and providers. Community members can add comments if a charger is out of service or full, which is really helpful on road-trips. I just use the filter (funnel icon) to select charges suitable for my car. Google maps is improving, but experience has repeatedly shown me that Google is not always up to date. Even when Google gets it right, it provides little or no info on exact plug location, and doesn’t detail cost, hours of public access, etc. Plug Share users are the best!
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We truly thank you for the amazing comments you have provided. We wouldn't be where we are without our users, who do all you have stated. We'll continue to grow and make improvements for your charging needs. Thanks for the 5 star review and happy charging!

Apparently, the ability to edit a charging station’s information has been removed from recent app versions. One of PlugShare’s great strengths WAS its crowd-sourced information by actual charger station users/customers. I tried to update a local station that recently added a Tesla plug, but I cannot find a way to edit. And the app’s Help feature provides inaccurate editing instructions that are apparently no longer available.

Update: The developer has informed me that some station owners request that the users be barred from editing their listings. Good to know. I have three suggestions. First, I’d suggest that PlugShare develop a process to enable and encourage these station owners to keep their listings up to date (e.g. “New Tesla connector available at this station.”). If users can’t edit station info, the owners should make darn sure to update their listings to reflect changes in status and features. Second, the app’s Help function should explain that some stations may not be editable by users. (Currently, the Help function doesn’t mention this, and that’s unnecessarily confusing. Third, station listings should clearly indicate whether stations may or may not be edited by users right on the listing (perhaps in place of the edit button?). My rating stands at 3 Stars. PlugShare remains an essential EV app, but its usefulness has declined as a result of these changes.

Please note some locations do not have the ability to be edited as these may be locations where the CPO directly feed us information about the station. Due to this, they have requested that no information be tampered with, which we have agreed to hold, thus the location being "locked" from editing. This usually occurs from major charge point operators. However, there may be times where the information is not up to date and a user wants to add this, but will still be locked as we will receive the data from them. We do thank you for your interest in wanting to keep PlugShare locations up to date and still have many where users can do this, but for some, this will not be possible. We thank you for your understanding and hope you continue enjoy using PlugShare!

as noted below I had some issues with trips disappearing. After a few days and several messages exchanged with the support team, my trips have reappeared. Support team’s follow up was very good and helpful.

Changing my rating from one star to four (should not have happened in the first place) but thanks to the support team for a good follow up.

I have spent hours preparing a trip to a remote area in the USA, happy to have found listings of various chargers for my EV. I planned waypoints accordingly resting points places to spend the night I saved my trip at several occasions only to find today but it has all disappeared. The frustration of having spent so much time and having it disappear is huge. I cannot recommend this site nor its accompanying app since neither has managed to save my work.

We're so sorry to hear this occurred. You may have been signed out of the app causing the confusion of your trip being lost. Please double check to ensure this is the case. If you still do not see your trip, please contact us through the Help Center and we can see if we can find this for you.

Edit (10/20/2022): Our development team would like to know more about your issue and asks if you could please contact us through the Help Center at "info@plugshare.com". We truly hope to hear from you soon!