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Pennsylvania’s share of broken electric vehicle charging stations, although small, points to a much bigger problem: there aren’t enough certified technicians to fix them.
There are currently just under 63,000 DC Fast and Level 2 public charging stations with over 161,000 charging ports across the country. According to data provided by the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation’s website, approximately 7,900 ports at 4,200 locations are temporarily out of service or offline due to maintenance.
Pennsylvania has just under 1,700 public charging locations with 4,111 ports installed. Of those, there are approximately 117 charging stations and 214 ports – amounting to roughly 7% and 5% of the totals, respectively – that are currently temporarily unavailable.
Full article, HERE. h/t Stretch
There aren’t nearly enough charging stations anyway, and the percentage of out of service ones isn’t doing the EV crowd any favors. I know up until a couple of new hotels came to Itchy Paw, there were THREE public chargers in the county, and they were all out at the truck stop!
And this article, HERE from Autoweek talks about the charging deserts in lower income areas… And rural areas are even worse!
But .gov wants ‘everyone’ to go EV… Nope, not happening in my house.
My local electrical coop sent out a survey some time ago in regards to EV’s. I responded by saying if I were to generate a list of the most useless/worthless/asinine things I could ever purchase, an EV would be at the very top of the list.
Here in Idaho we just got a grant from the Feds for EV chargers. Note: they first have to decide where and how many charging stations are needed (anyone else betting on Boise for most of them?). My guess by the time the state and fed get through “studying” the problem. several years will have passed and the grant money spent without a single charging station built.
No EVs in my garage. I live in Western PA and will keep my gas operated pickup and car. Also the global warming crowd wants all tractors to be EV as well as lawn mowers. Not at my house. I will keep running my John Deere and lawn mowers on gas. What the Global warming crowd should investigate is the slave labor going on in Africa and other places where the ingrediants are mined to produce the batteries that are used in EVs. Little kids are being used as slaves in those mines and that has been documented.
“charging deserts in lower income areas”
aka places where people can’t afford expensive EVs
Can’t afford EVs, but the price of fuel will be driven up, regardless.
Unless something like Toyota’s solid state battery technology (still in R&D stage) proves out, I don’t see myself going with an EV any year soon. I will say the LiFePO4 battery in the camper is a wonder, though.
If you “embrace the power of ‘and'” with a plug-in hybrid that uses a 110v “extension-cord charger” overnight in your garage…
• 48¢/gallon-equivalent for electrons (YMMV)
• 500 miles in the gas tank
If you don’t go out of town much, stale gas in the tank can be an issue.
If you don’t go out of town, then an EV makes sense.
If you DO go out of town, then it doesn’t.
::points to the “500 miles in the gas tank::
“Embrace the power of ‘and'” 😉
All- Thanks and good points!
The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, California, is the largest charging station in the world.
And it’s all powered by diesel!
To get into the mood when any such ‘green’ issue is portrayed, I strongly suggest you play the following link; ‘Julius Fucik – Entry of the Gladiators’
The tune also fits in well with ‘Bumbling Biden’ on walkabout …
Yours Aye
Ex Bootneck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
The whole EV thing, what an utter scam, not unlike our elections.
When things “go sporty” I can foresee someone sabotaging EV charging stations to maroon The Better Class.
Assuming, of course, that any electricity is even being generated somewhere to make charging stations work.