We drove to Spain from Netherlands in an EV for our family holiday. The NL infrastructure for charging is great because there is/was a lot of need for chargers due to the government subsidizing electric vehicles + the infrastructure for the past decade.

Crossing borders, we found a decent amount of (fast) chargers in Belgium, Luxemburg and i was amazed that each France gas station, on our route, had a lot of fast chargers and even employees managing the flow of people if there was a line of EVs who wanted to charge.

Then we entered Spain … the horror. Didn’t find a working charger at any of the gas stations we stopped. Had to go trough a mcdonalds or public shopping area with big shops to find a working charger. There were almost never Spanish electric cars there, only tourists. No slow 10kwh chargers in the towns on walking distance from our stay to leave the car on overnight. I went to the Aldi and the charger was only active during opening hours!? It was a very bad experience. I have a company RFID tag that works with almost all chargers in Europe, but for Spain there is a very low coverage, so had the hassle to pay upfront with credit card.

So things should become better when there are more Spanish people start driving an electric cars, perhaps the government will/needs to do some investments there, also because more tourists come in or even skip Spain because of bad charging infra.

There is an approve step before sending out the text message. I also have set it up that it checks between a certain period, so around the time i normally leave the office to drive home.

When im near the office and my phone connects with my carplay, it sends a message to my wife with the ETA for me to get home, opens waze to start a route towards home, and opens spotify.