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WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Problem With EV Chargers

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Out-of-order signs, payment errors and connection issues — these are some of the problems electric vehicle drivers encounter when trying to charge their EVs. WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern joins host Julie Chang to talk about her experience and why so many EV chargers were broken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

First, the bad news.

0:01.6

SAP Business AI won't generate amusing holiday cards.

0:04.7

But it will personalize career paths for your people

0:06.9

and let you know which suppliers are best,

0:08.7

so you can be ready for the next opportunity.

0:10.7

Revolutionary technology, real world results. That's SAP business AI.

0:15.0

Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, November 16th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:25.0

Out of order signs, payment errors, and connection issues.

0:29.0

These are some of the problems electric vehicle drivers encounter

0:32.0

when trying to charge their

0:33.8

E. Our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern visited 30 non-T Tesla fast

0:39.6

charger stations in Southern California. She'll join us later in the show to discuss her

0:44.3

experience and what she learned about where things stand with EV charging.

0:51.8

But first, as the 2024 election approaches, Meta will allow political

0:57.4

advertisers to say past elections were rigged or stolen. However, the ads will not be permitted to question the

1:04.3

legitimacy of ongoing and coming elections. Some candidates already

1:08.8

appear to have questioned past elections and ads, like former President

1:12.3

Donald Trump, who ran a campaign

1:14.2

ad on Facebook in August that called the 2020 election rigged. Our

1:18.7

reporter Salvador Rodriguez explains the reason behind Meta's decision.

1:23.0

Meta made this change about a year ago in the lead up to the US 2022 midterms and the company

1:28.7

decided to look at its election ads policy again after pausing ads for elections in that last week of the 2020 election and continuing that pause for several months afterward.

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