Long queues during China's weeklong National Day holiday are understandably commonplace, and this year proved no different, with around 515 million people on the move from Oct 1-7.

Those lining up at popular tourist destinations and restaurants this year were joined by electric car owners who needed to charge their vehicles at expressway charging piles.

One EV driver complained on social media that she spent four hours at the Leiyang rest area in Hunan province on Oct 1, waiting for her turn to charge her vehicle for the one hour it needed, during her trip from Shenzhen in Guangdong province to Hunan's Hengyang.