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Analysis of EV charging stations finds reliability issues galore

A new report by ChargerHelp calls lack of interoperability “the overarching threat to system reliability and broader EV adoption” in the US.

A new study spanning 20,000 chargers and 19 million data points homes in on some of the biggest issues with the public charging experience in the US—and, crucially for speeding up EV adoption, how to fix them. The number of public EV charging ports is growing quickly, the report notes, having doubled in the last three years to more than 175,000 as of April. “For the EV market to continue to flourish,” Kameale Terry, ChargerHelp’s co-founder and CEO, said in a statement, “we need to work to ensure true uptime is the norm through a standardized and more synchronized approach to data, maintenance, and communication networks.”

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