Wanted: Electricians to fix thousands of broken EV chargers

Income Power's Jaylin Sheppard repairs an EV charger. According to Here Technologies, which pulls real-time data from connected chargers, 4,673 chargers were out of order as of early October, but it expects many more “unconnected” charge points were inoperable.

October 10, 2023 12:00 PM

Electric vehicle adoption suffers from a giant black eye: There are nowhere near enough certified technicians to fix all the broken chargers.

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