Charging an electric vehicle in public can be the best of times or the worst of times.
An EV driver can be charged and back on the road in a smooth 20 minutes, but they might also encounter broken chargers, unresponsive touchscreens, and blocked stalls, all of which can make for a frustrating experience.
It can be a headache for everyday consumers. For fleet or ride share drivers, a broken charger is lost money.
Those frustrations prompted Ashwin Dias and J.J. Raynor to leave their jobs at Uber, where they led efforts to electrify ride…