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The biggest problem in Germany at the moment is that a high percentage of chargers are broken. Here is a supermarket with chargers, broken for weeks now. Imagi
by KingOfCoders 2y ago
The biggest problem in Germany at the moment is that a high percentage of chargers are broken. Here is a supermarket with chargers, broken for weeks now.
Imagine the outcry if 50% of gas pumps were broken all the time.
- standeven 2y agoTesla superchargers are rarely down. Not sure what they’re doing differently, but it shows that EV chargers CAN be reliable, but a lot of companies haven’t figured it out yet.
- cevn 2y agoThis has been changing since Musk fired the supercharger team. I found one location where the entire set was nonfunctional and no indication in the car app.
- rightbyte 2y agoI've worked with these chargers. It is shoddy software that usually is the problem. The algorithm to detect ground faults is a major culprit.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoThe USA has a bunch of funding available to states to fund charging networks, under the Inflstion Reduction Act. At the beginning of the year we finally got our federal charging standard together, and it's looking really good & useful on this front: To get funding you need real time & historical charger availability and status info (including what charge rates are available), via API. Making sure chargers are both really discoverable & actually usable should be greatly improved!
- kristopolous 2y agoAll new industries are plagued by functional problems during the scaling stage. Electricity isn't inherently as unreliable in other applications so these problems will eventually be resolved and have approximately the same failure profile as normal electricity.