EV ownership may be on the rise, which is a good thing. But what not good is the charging infrastructure barely keep up with adoption. So while you can drive your EV and charge it at home, public charging has been and is an entirely different matter, as detailed in a latest report by Apple Inc. Electric JDthrough America today.
This report is part of a larger report conducted on electric vehicle rental rates and vehicle availability — showing that 20.8% of electric vehicle owners said they had problems charging their batteries. in public in the first quarter of 2023. Many people say the charger is not working, otherwise you are really close to 0% power on your battery and this is the only charger you can use used, it certainly creates a big problem.
Then when you look at faster chargers, the numbers aren’t much better. Electric JD says that 71 percent of all public charging stations are Level 2, but customer satisfaction with those chargers has dropped significantly. On the other hand, level 3 charging satisfaction is indeed slightly improved, but that doesn’t say much as many people don’t have access to those types of chargers. Charging problems are also more apparent in the West, in places like California, where electric vehicle adoption is widespread. Top nation. The report states that 25% of EV owners cannot use public chargers in the Pacific region; nationally is 21 percent.
A VW ID.4 owner shared his personal difficulties charging the battery with America today. Charging is so bad he says he’ll start renting or borrowing gas cars to make longer trips.
He often stops at a public charging station in Moore, Oklahoma, on his way to college to refuel. But on his last visit, he said that one of the four chargers was not working and another was delivering a limited number of kilowatts. He lined up behind three other cars, making the usually 30-minute stop over an hour long. He ran into another line of people at a public toll booth on his way home.
One of the main reliability issues with public charging is the lack of maintenance, due to the strange relationship between EV charging companies and J.D. Power, said Brent Gruber, J.D. Power’s executive director of global automotive research. owners of the locations where they are located. Most do not own or operate their chargers but instead sell them to the sites where they are currently located. And like most new, expensive things, maintenance will be maintained if the warranty is still in effect. But once the warranty expires, site owners tend to stop taking care of the charger. Seriously far from ideal.
Companies like Electrify America say they plan to replace 600 aging EV chargers by the end of the year, but much more needs to be done across the industry and of course, also needs to make more chargers. In the interim, Gruber said the best thing electric vehicle drivers can do until charging improves is to plan ahead and “prepare for the unexpected”.
