Questioning Charger Reliability

ChargerHelp's latest study has recently uncovered a major gap between reported EV charger uptime versus the cold, hard reality. Turns out, juicing up your EV might be less like a gas station and more like playing a very frustrating game of roulette.

More than 26% of the stations examined in the study were guilty of misleading drivers with false status reports.

👻 One of the primary culprits are ghost stations. No, not haunted chargers. Ones that are supposedly fully functional according to the network software, but about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when you pull up for a charge.

🧟 On the other hand, we also have zombie stations. These are the poor souls that the software writes off as dead, but they’re secretly up and running, ready to charge.

These software inaccuracies are doing a number on the EV charging experience. Couple that with unexpected hardware malfunctions, and the result has been an overall growing mistrust of EV charging infrastructure.

Experts anticipate better procedures and more stations will help ease EV driver struggles, but we still have a long way to go.