Improving the Electric Vehicle Charging Experience in the U.S.
Charging electric vehicles across the United States leaves much to be desired, as highlighted by a recent comprehensive study detailing significant infrastructure shortcomings. This research uncovers critical issues such as underreporting of malfunctioning chargers, unreliable status updates regarding charger availability, aging technologies, and some consistently unreliable service providers (whose names remain undisclosed).
Research Insights from ChargerHelp
This insightful analysis was carried out by ChargerHelp, a company specializing in operations and maintenance solutions for EV chargers. Their findings were rigorously evaluated by Professor Gil Tal, the head of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at UC Davis. Utilizing four years’ worth of data from 20,000 monitored chargers, ChargerHelp compared each network’s self-reported uptime against actual performance metrics…
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