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An analysis of 20,000 EV stations concludes that charging is still a massive bummer
There might be more broken chargers than the apps say.
The firm also had its findings reviewed and confirmed by Professor Gil Tal, who is director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis. The study found that 26 percent of all stations analyzed did not positively match the perceived status of the chargers as presented in the networks’ software. The study lists various situations where an EV driver can’t successfully connect with a charger, including “ghost” station scenarios, where stalls appear in an app but either don’t exist or are broken.
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