While the installation of e-car charging stations has only just begun here, the state of aging chargers in the United States is already causing problems. Only Tesla’s dedicated network seems to work reliably. Overseas, a $100 million overhaul of the e-car charging network has begun.
Even the thousand-mile American e-car test conducted by journalists in the summer ended with alarming results. That pretty much turned out to be the case
It’s nice to drive an electric car until we leave the showroom;
Because we can hardly find a charging station. The Wall Street Journal said the only encouraging sign is that both Ford and General Motors have joined the Tesla charger standard.
Now more disappointing data has arrived. According to these
Existing chargers don’t always work either.
There are approximately 150,000 public charging points available to drivers in the United States. Of these devices, only 34,000 are fast chargers that can be charged within an hour. A study conducted by J.D. Power in August found that
20 percent of shipments fail.
Only Tesla’s network can be used, and the false charging rate is only 4 percent.
Although electric cars represent only 1% of the car fleet in the United States, the development of the charging network cannot keep pace with their spread.
