As the RV industry makes more and more noise about moving into the world of electric vehicles (EVs), RVers wonder how it will all work. In addition to issues such as too-little mile range per charge, locations of EV charge stations also pile up. Now there’s another worry: Not enough EV charge station technicians.
Six percent of charge stations across U.S. are dead
On October 5, close to 4,000 public EV charge stations across the U.S. were “out of service.” That information surfaces in a report from Automotive News, which pointed out that’s about 6 percent of all available chargers. The problem? Not enough EV charge station technicians.
Why not just head to the Union Hall and hire more electricians? While a big part of EV charge stations does revolve around electricity, more is involved. According to a story run by gmauthority.com, “There is a hunger from communities across the U.S. to be able to participate in this space, to get good paying jobs,” said ChargerHelp! CEO Kameale Terry. “Traditional electrician skills will be necessary, but so will software skills. If someone goes out to change the connector, but doesn’t understand the full breadth of the ecosystem, it’s hard for them to know if changing that connector was good enough.”
Feds charge up the system with $100 million
It’s another problem in the move to help the environment by moving toward EVs. The Biden administration recognizes that EV charge station outages are a real problem. It has announced a $100 million fund for repair and replacement of nonoperational charging infrastructure across the country. The program will help both publicly and privately owned EV charging stations.
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Why are all those charging stations “out of service?” Did somebody forget to refuel the diesel generators so the charging stations can stay up and running? That’s just reality.
As I have been saying ever since all this EV craze started, the infrastructure is not in place to support EVs. Look at CA the EV capital, they can’t keep EVs on the road due to lack of infrastructure, and where are the EV RVs going to charge? The present charging stations are designed for cars, if a RV tries to get into one they either don’t fit or they are blocking traffic. That proves the pro EVers never intended for massive EVs.
Nobody qualified to fix the chargers. Nobody qualified to fix electric vehicles. Yet we are supposed to race headlong into this unwanted form of transportation. And here comes the government to save the day by throwing money at the problems affiliated with this.
I have a number of neighbors who love their electric cars. They use no fuel which helps keep the price of oil down. As far as a shortage of qualified techs, there is a shortage of workers in most areas of the economy due to so many boomers retiring. It will all work out in the end. Although I am holding off on an EV purchase as I read one of the large auto manufacturers (Toyota I think) is coming out with a battery that can be charged fully in ten minutes and give a 700 mile range.
This sounds like “pie in the sky” to me.
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no fuel? That magic outlet in the wall will provide….
If Clarence Thomas refits his Prevost for electric, will the Dems stop the “high tech lynching”?
I just read Hertz is having a hard time with Tesla’s constantly breaking down and costing twice the amount of a ICE vehicle to repair. Didn’t know Tesla’s weren’t dependable.