
It was one of those nights. I had been in LA all day for a Volkswagen event, gotten dinner in town and still had a two-to-three hour drive back to San Diego ahead of me. And the damn battery wasn't full. I'd have to stop at a charger on my way out of town. Exhausted and dreading another long stop, I plugged into a 350-kW station at a Target. I went in, grabbed a snack and peed. I came out expecting to sit around and twiddle my thumbs. But because I was driving a Genesis Electrified G80, in 15 minutes I had gone from around 30% to 80%.