When it comes to both gas stations and EV charging, the big names get most of the attention. Tesla, Electrify America, EVgo, and others are what people think of first for EV charging, largely because just about everyone has either charged at one or seen one.
My first experience with Franklin’s Charging was in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the company’s second location. If you text the owner’s phone number, you can get a PIN needed to access a waiting area with a nice couch, bathrooms, and adapters for Teslas to charge on CCS or CHAdeMO. The interior of the waiting area is clean and nice, too.
Another great thing in Little Rock was the recently upgraded ChargePoint station. While ChargePoint is still working out some bugs to get it to work with Teslas, I saw my first non-Tesla NACS station here, and from what I can gather, it’s among the first anywhere. Because ChargePoint is still squashing some final bugs, it wasn’t able to charge the Teslas that were there yet, but adapters were readily available.