California Wants More Electric Cars. But Many Public Chargers Don't Work

09 May 2022 | Abstracted from San Francisco Chronicle

"...fanned out across the region's nine counties over three weeks in February and March, visiting 181 public charging stations with a total of 657 plug-in kiosks...

"They found 73% of public kiosks in working order. But nearly 23% had inoperable screens, payment failures or broken connector cables. On another 5%, the cables were too short to reach the vehicles' charging inlet."

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