As the market for electric vehicles expands, the reliability record for public EV chargers is poor, causing many would-be EV buyers to question whether it's time to make the switch.
Plenty of challenges lie ahead as California mandates zero-emission cars, including cost and access to charging.
At the El Segundo lab, 12 EVgo chargers are lined up against one long brick wall. “That’s every charger on our network,” said Keith Beckstead, EVgo’s director of charger engineering. The economy’s switch to EVs is still in its early days and the fact that the automobile industry has yet not coordinated its charging protocols means that the digital “handshake” between a car’s software and a charger’s software is a common point of failure, and one that’s hard to diagnose.
“We walk down the line, testing every charger for every car,” said Wynter. That’s a time-consuming labor-intensive hassle. “Right now, that doesn’t scale,” he said. According to Steklac, EVgo is working hard to get automakers, other charger companies and industry standards bodies to agree on standards that could clear the path for the industry as a whole.Only 10 electric and plug-in hybrid cars will qualify for the full tax credit in the U.S. out of 90 available EV options on the market.
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