They're being installed a little bit everywhere here in Stockholm, Sweden – I used one just yesterday. Half the time they don't work, mostly it seems because t

They're being installed a little bit everywhere here in Stockholm, Sweden – I used one just yesterday. Half the time they don't work, mostly it seems because the credit card reader doesn't seem to work or the pole isn't able to process payment for some other reason. The kicker is that you still have to pay for parking, and should the pole not be working you can't use the spot anyway lest you get fined for parking and not charging. In a city where parking spots are generally few and far between this is supremely annoying. Another thing that's supremely annoying is that cars have their charge inlets placed in different spots, meaning people will park in whatever way is convenient for them to charge, no matter if that now means two other spots are blocked. Tesla owners seem to be the worst offenders in this regard, in my experience, presumably because their charging ports being placed in the back right (like on an ICE car) just makes it really awkward to use these poles that generally seem placed to optimize for plugging in to the front of the car. Teething issues aside, I'm glad to see these things popping up.