Functional infrastructure is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle for electric car owners. And even though the number of fast chargers is growing – a new report shows that many do not work.
The transition from fossil to electric power is a huge change. Not only on the product side – but also the infrastructure change it entails. Apart from Tesla, which took matters into its own hands early on, car manufacturers have largely stood on the sidelines.
The expansion of the charging infrastructure has been slow and that problem was raised by VW manager Herbert Diess earlier this year as a threshold that prevented them from going “all in” on electric cars.
But not only is the number of fast chargers problematic as onions on salmon, there are constantly reports that those that do exist – are often out of order.
Ten percent of the chargers are broken
German Stern reports that new figures show that between eight and ten percent of the chargers along the roads are broken. This according to figures from the charging operator Elvah. In France, it seems to be worse than that and up to one in five chargers can be out of order.
– If you were to transfer these figures to petrol stations – then imagine how the criticism would have sounded, says a spokesperson for Elvah to Stern.
And it is not just down in Europe that the problems exist. In the USA, a reliability report was presented in April in which 657 charging points at 181 public chargers were examined. So what emerged? Well, that 23 percent of the chargers were out of order. When a return visit was made after eight days, the situation with the broken chargers was not resolved.
76 electric cars per fast charger in Sweden
This is in stark contrast to the fact that operators claim that the chargers work 95-98 percent of the time.
– Everyone states a very high level of reliability, but it is not something we see, says David Rempel who is one of the authors of the report in a comment to San Francisco Chronicle.
In Sweden has the problem has been similar. In addition, we have one of the car parks that is electrified the fastest – without the charge keeping up. According to statistics from Electric Car Statistics, the number of fast chargers (Tesla, Chademo and CCS) has increased from 1,297 to 1,752 in two years, of which more than 1,000 of these only produce 50 kW. This at the same time as the number of electric cars increased from 38,661 to 133,408.
This means that as we approach the holidays, with an electric car fleet like never before, the number of electric cars per fast charger is 76. So any broken charger will have a big impact.
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