Presto is building Stripe for EV charging

Charging an electric vehicle in public can be the best of times or the worst of times. 

An EV driver can be charged and back on the road in a smooth 20 minutes, but they might also encounter broken chargers, unresponsive touchscreens, and blocked stalls, all of which can make for a frustrating experience.

It can be a headache for everyday consumers. For fleet or ride share drivers, a broken charger is lost money.

Those frustrations prompted Ashwin Dias and J.J. Raynor to leave their jobs at Uber, where they led efforts to electrify ride…