TTAC Podcast: Talking Frozen Teslas With Tom Appel and Chris Tonn

by Tim Healey

Published: January 26th, 2024

ttac podcast talking frozen teslas with tom appel and chris tonn

Hey there! Welcome back! It's time for episode three of our new and improved podcast.

You may have heard about some Tesla owners getting frozen out of charging stations in Chicago 10 days ago or so. As our guest, Consumer Guide Automotive Publisher Tom Appel, lays out here, the story is a bit more complicated than that.

We also talked about our first drive of the 2024 Kia EV9, the state of EV charging in general, our dream cars, and some of our favorite and least favorite cars of the 1990s. As usual, we thank eBay Motors for sponsoring us.

Click here or on the embedded player to listen, and check in next week as we chat with Karl Brauer from iSeeCars.com.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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NormSV650 on Jan 30, 2024
With 90% of the public charging at home you guys are the winning minority. Remember too that most new EV's have 3-minutes free DCFC charging. So having stations down or slow keeps owners from taking advantage of the companies.

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Doug brockman on Jan 30, 2024
Norm so happy you love your EV. I love my ICE. Isnt it so nice when everyone can choose their own vehicle and the petroleum as well as the electricity keeps flowing?

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