California Looks to Make EV Charging Suppliers More Accountable

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Apart from Tesla, fast-charging infrastructure for electric vehicles has a downside. Some policy makers want to improve the experience for California EV owners.

DC fast-charging is the gold standard for electric vehicles, but providers of the service—other than the better-established Tesla network—haven't got the user experience down quite yet.

It's no secret among electric-car drivers that the public DC fast-charging experience, Tesla aside, is nowhere near as reliable as it should be. If you arrived at a gas station that had eight separate hoses and only one provided gasoline, would you grade it 100%?California's plans for accountability were flagged in the below tweet by Loren McDonald, CEO of the EV and EV charging analysis and consulting firm EV Adoption. He highlighted a response by the Energy Commission to a letter it received from California State Assemblyman Phil Ting, who has proposed state legislation on charging reliability.

 

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