I’d bet good money that the lion’s share of those non-functional ones are on sites owned by municipal governments.
I would rather bet that it’s companies that took the money to make profit on the installation and never signed a maintenance agreement.
I’m just going by personal experience here - here in #HamOnt all of the chargers I know of that are working are on private parking lots, all the ones I know of that are not working are
a) On municipal parking lots,
and
b) Aren’t just “not working” but were in fact installed years ago but never actually finished to the point of being turned-on and usable. Like, there’s a fully installed EV charger, there are patches in the asphalt leading away from it that shows a bunch of underground work was done to support it (presumably hooking it to mains), but the screen is blank and dark and has been since the day it was installed long ago.
With the current housing crisis, I’ve come to the assumption you can never go broke betting on municipal incompetence.
Its the government, how is this news?
Unless its saying its surprising that many worked.
Hey moron, these aren’t government owned chargers. Can you read?
