John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Aug 20, 2024

"The EV Charging Experience is Often Awful: Here's Why

Explore ChargerHelp's 2024 report on EV charging reliability. Discover key findings on uptime discrepancies, equipment age effects, and how these issues impact driver experience."

by Maria Guerra, Senior Editor-Battery Technology
August 6, 2024

"Despite a remarkable increase in public EV charge ports in the US, the electric vehicle charging experience (EVCX) remains weighed down with issues that affect the industry’s reputation. To understand the gaps in charging infrastructure reliability, ChargerHelp analyzed over 19M data points from 2023, drawing insights from its direct electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) operations and maintenance (O&M) experience, Paren’s third-party data, the U.S. DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) database, and select utility filings. ..."

https://www.batterytechonline.com/charging/the-ev-charging-experience-is-often-awful-here-s-why

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The EV Charging Experience is Often Awful: Here's Why

Explore ChargerHelp's 2024 report on EV charging reliability. Discover key findings on uptime discrepancies, equipment age effects, and how these issues impact driver experience.

Show threadargv minus one

@johnlogic

Where I live, I don't believe I've seen a payment system at all on any of the EV chargers, and they prominently advertise free charging. I assume the current is rather low, but at least they won't fail due to a malfunction of their nonexistent payment system.

Aug 20, 2024 at 7:06pmWeb
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Aug 20, 2024

@argv_minus_one

A few days ago at the #SunnyvalePublicLibrary I noticed this electric vehicle charger with solar panels. I expect that it includes a large battery (perhaps just below the panels). It seems to have plugs for two cars and a credit card reader that says #ChargePoint . I didn't happen to look for whether it offers free charging.

I just looked it up and found at https://www.plugshare.com/location/571175 that it costs $1.50 per hour.

Maverik EA NEVI Site (Coming Soon) | Boron, CA | EV Station

4 stalls, coordinates 34.996484, -117.543025 https://www.energy.ca.gov/filebrowser/download/6635?fid=6635#block-symsoft-page-title

Show threadargv minus oneAug 20, 2024

@johnlogic

I wonder how that compares to the local electric company and gas stations?

Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Aug 20, 2024

@argv_minus_one

That's a great question.

In my old gas-burner, I can drive at least 5 miles on $1 worth of fuel.

I wonder how many miles of charge one could get from one of those 6.5 kW ("level 2") plugs. (I actually ran the numbers pretty thoroughly in 2009; let's see if I can jog my memory.)

Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Aug 20, 2024

@argv_minus_one

If I remember right, I think I had estimated that I could drag a vehicle powered by heavy lead-acid batteries at up to highway speeds for about 0.77 W per mile.

With modern lightweight lithium-ion batteries I'd expect it would be even less.