EV charing as a foreigner with a rental

Hi everyone,
can you help me on how to charge a rental EV as a tourist coming from Europe, Germany?
I have rented an EV in Florida, and have emailed the major charing networks on my options and their recommendations, plus tried to check out their web site information, as some did not answer.
Maybe you have additional information and better recommendations for me and others, compared to what answers I got and impressions I found?

Electrify America:
They answered that all their chargers have credit card readers and will accept internation major credit cards. That's cool and will do it for me. Especially, because I will not be able to use their app, as paying through it does require an American credit card, liked to a US zip code.

Tesla:
In case my rental will be a Tesla, I understood that most (or all) rental companies will pass through the payment automatically billed by Teslas chargers, where charing will automatically start. Some rental companies might add some surcharge. Probably there is no other option to that?
In case my rental is a non-Tesla and I find a supercharger station, which allows non-Teslas, I have added a payment option to my Tesla account and will be able to start the charge and pay for it with the app. Both app and payment option can be international, as it looks like.
Tesla has not answered my request, so the above is what I found on the web.

evGo:
They answered that many chargers have credit card readers and will accept international major credit cards. For the rest, I may call a phone number and start the charging with the credit card by phone.
I cannot use the app, since it is no available in my German Google Play Store, but only in the US one. And I cannot even open an account at evGo, as this is only possible on the app.

blink:
They did not answer.
I cannot use the app, since it is no available in my German Google Play Store. And I cannot even open an account at blink, as this is only possible on the app.
Any idea what I can do instead?

chargepoint:
They did not answer.
The app is available in German Google Play Store, so I hope to be able to open an account and set up a payment option and use it for charging. But I did not finish my reading and opening of the account yet.
What are your recommendations for them?

Any other network that you recommend, which I should be prepared for?
I did not spot any other ones for my trip from Miami to the Keys and Naples/Bonita Springs yet on PlugShare etc.

 

Thank you guys!
Does not sound good, if you recommend the gas rentals to me... But actually I don't fear the hassle, but look forward to the adventure and feel motivated to make it
This is maybe my thrill, while my family enjoys the more tourist like thrills

I am about to set up accounts for Plugshare and chargepoint. Thank your for those tips!
If you have more of those for me, that would be great.

I found Jule EV to work with credit cards, and will look into EVconnect, but they might be accessible via chargepoint, too, right?
FPL Evolution looks good, but has their app in the US Play Store only, again. No sign to offer payment without the app, so far

 

Hi everyone,

meanwhile I am in Florida, on the road with a nice Kia Niro EV 2024, and have completed half of my journey nicely with it.

I would say that everyone can be encouraged to rent an EV in the south of Florida and with similar conditions elsewhere. You don't need to recommend renting a gas car instead

Being in a hurry at the car pick up, I only realised a day later on the Florida Keys, that the car does not have a Level 2 charging cable on board. This is what I am used to from Europe, so I feared this might be a setback. But since I have not even seen a single Level 2 charger without an attached cable, so this might be the standard in the US?

And anyway, since blink still is not available for me (and they have not replied), I only used Level 3 chargers until now. Which worked perfectly fine and relaxed. Actually, so far I have run on the Electrify America charger alone on my journey. And have never come below 50% until just yesterday, after a longer itinerary from Homestead along the Tamiami trail (which is almost a charger desert at the moment) to Naples. Charging in Homestead to 79%, I arrived with 33% / 100 miles left in Naples. Also relaxed, no?

And before, starting at the Miami airport, sleeping in Homestead, charging from 80% to 100% (mainly to test the EA charging at a Walmart), driving to the Keys, recharging to 80% in Key West with EA, again with EA to 80% in Key Largo, this was the part that never brought me below 50% before the Homestead EA charging mentioned above.

So even my wife is relaxed about my adventure, as it is a not really one, so far. And I don't think it will be one, since Naples has even more chargers (though EA might let me down here, as they are reported to be unstable or overcrowded here) for my ways around and back to Miami airport via the Alligator Alley interstate.

I have come across some other chargers from EVgo, blink, EV Connect, greenlots and chargepoint. But they either are broken, have a buggy payment process for international visitors or no possibility outside the US Google Play Store to initiate the charging. I can write about the details, if you are interested, but would have used them out of curiosity, to only be more relaxed and reduce the EA usage.

Happy vacational greetings from the South of Florida!