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Originally Posted by sarg
I have to disagree, how many of these chargers that have been installed actually work?
There are hundreds of stories of drivers being stranded because the charger they went to was out of order
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I didn't say the network was perfect, simply that it's getting much better. The "stories" you refer to are - by definition - historic. The fact is that networks like Ionity and Gridserve are now streets ahead of Ecotricity (which quite rightly got a bad rap....) and it's a similar story for the other networks too.
Unlike refilling a petrol car, EVs also have a range of route planning apps that are pretty good at giving real time outages of any chargers (you only get that for ICE cars on motorway gantry signs if a service station is, for example, out of diesel), so being "stranded" is highly unlikely, if you use the information available properly.
I've never once been stranded - or even been anywhere close to it - in nearly 6 years and 120k miles of travelling in my Tesla.