America’s Electric Vehicle Dream Plagued By Broken Charging Stations, Study Finds

John Hugh DeMastri Contributor

February 21, 2023 3:36 PM ET
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Electric vehicle drivers found that the nearest public charger was unusable in more than one in five charging attempts, according to an updated survey by J.D. Power, Kelley Blue Book (KBB) reported Tuesday.

J.D. Power had reported in August that 20% of more than 11,500 surveyed drivers failed to charge their vehicle at the nearest station in the first half of 2022, but the number climbed to 21% when data for the second half of 2022 was included, according to KBB. Of those instances where customers failed to charge, 72% of respondents cited an out of service station, 12% cited a long wait or lack of available chargers, and 10% cited payment processing errors, Brent Gruber, executive director of global automotive at J.D. Power, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“We can’t add new chargers and let all those old ones fall into a state of disrepair,” Gruber told KBB. “We have to manage the maintenance of those as well because that’s the only way we’re going to meet the consumer demand.”

The study found a significant performance disparity between different companies, with one company’s chargers failing at a rate of just 3% while another’s failed at a rate of 39%, according to KBB. J.D. Power did not identify the companies by name. (RELATED: Tesla Recalls Over 300,00 Vehicles Due To Self-Driving Sa...

Electric vehicle sales nearly doubled in the U.S. to 5.8% of market share in 2022, from 3.2% in 2021, and investments in technology supporting electric vehicles are a major component of President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act. Tesla, which remained the worldwide top seller of electric vehicles in 2022, agreed to upgrade nearly half of its 17,000 charging stations nationwide to be universally compatible with other cars, making it eligible for a portion of $7.5 billion in federal incentives for charger development.

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Comment by Willem Post on February 23, 2023 at 8:53am

Broken charging stations is right.

A new installation at Walmart in West Lebanon, had two of its four stations not working.for several weeks, because of a lack of replacement parts and damage by frustrated users.

It is a blessing, Tesla will allow the use of some of its stations by all EVs starting in 2024!!

 

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