Re: What Makes EV Charging Stations Fail?

 > JAB wrote:
 > Sep 26, 2023
 >
 > What Makes EV Charging Stations Fail?
 >
 > A new study sheds some light on a main concern for EV drivers:
What's
 > causing problems with dead public EV charging stations?
 > ....
 > ....
 > Based on network data monitored across the United States this year,
 > the most common reasons for failed EV charging sessions are
problems
 > with:
 >
 >     station connectivity: 55 percent
 >     internal station faults or errors: 38 percent
 >     charging connector or cable: 4 percent
 >     credit-card reader: 1 percent
 >     display screen: 1 percent
 >
 > CONNECTIVITY: The data suggests that more than half all charging
 > failures come from a station not being able to connect to its
network
 > for authentication.
 >
 > STATION INTERNALS: The next failure category, "internal faults
or
 > errors," covers software and perhaps some hardware failures.
Many EV
 > drivers have posted photos of non-working charging stations that
have
 > seemingly frozen in the middle of rebooting, including what looks
 > suspiciously like Windows code on their screens. This is likely a
host
 > of different issues, each of which has to be addressed separately,
for
 > different stations from different makers. It's complicated.
 >
 >
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45309960/ev-charging-stations-problems/

It
is impossible to depend on charging anything. It is like phone
charging stations. It could go out and nobody services
the thing. If so there need to be somebody within "walking
distance" to service the thing, with all problems considered.
 

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