25% Of San Francisco’s EV Charging Stations Don’t Work

[pipedreams]

"California’s bold move toward an EV revolution and eliminating the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035 have hit a snag in the liberal utopian city of San Francisco.

A recent report by David Rempel of the University of California at Berkeley found a quarter of all EV charging stations in the Bay Area were out of order, suggesting current infrastructure isn’t ready for the giant leap toward an electrified world."

https://www.technocracy.news/ev-chaos-25-of-san-franciscos-ev-charging-stations-dont-work/

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/25-san-franciscos-ev-charging-stations-dont-work

"Rates are so expensive that charging some EVs in certain parts of the state is almost as much as filling up a vehicle at the gas station.

The incentives for owning an EV in California are diminishing, from faulty infrastructure in San Francisco to extremely high electricity rates in some parts of the state. Not exactly what is needed to instill confidence in increasing EV ownership."

[railfancwb]

Being told not to charge the EV overnight at home because HVAC needs of the community are more important really boosts the demand for EVs

[railfancwb]

Norway, with almost 100% of its electricity “green” from hydro, is beginning to discourage EV ownership in favor of mass transit. 

[pipedreams]

EV charging stations are headed toward the fate of many windmill farms, where as many as 75 percent of the giant towers are stationary.

[railfancwb]

5 minutes ago, pipedreams said:

EV charging stations are headed toward the fate of many windmill farms, where as many as 75 percent of the giant towers are stationary.

Once the government subsidies have all been collected and the accelerated depreciation write off taken, why waste money keeping the the things operational.

On the way to see a volcano spilling into the ocean, wife and I drove by a largely abandoned and non functional wind farm in Hawaii. It was on a place reputed to have the most continuous wind farm wind of any place in the world. Yet that wind farm had been abandoned. 

[Cougar_ml]

So what they are saying is that 75% of the charging stations have yet to be damaged/looted/disabled.  

Just give it some more time.

[railfancwb]

[janice6]

Remember the argument California greenies had for killing Bald Eagles with Windmills?  It was for the environment.  For everyone else, you could go to jail for killing those birds.....

[Walt Longmire]

2 minutes ago, janice6 said:

Remember the argument California greenies had for killing Bald Eagles with Windmills?  It was for the environment.  For everyone else, you could go to jail for killing those birds.....

You can go to jail for merely possessing a feather from one.

[janice6]

1 minute ago, Walt Longmire said:

You can go to jail for merely possessing a feather from one.

In the instance of the Wind farms in CA, the decision was that only a few were killed. 

[tous]

If I remember correctly, and I am to lazy and not interested enough to research, are the San Francisco charging stations owned by the city and installed as part of a federal program (yes, we all pay for Tesla owner's energy) that provides recharging at no cost?

Yes, boys and girls.  You pay $6.00 per gallon for gasoline for your automobile and you also pay for electric automobile owners, you know, those vehicles you can't afford to purchase, to charge their batteries.

Shut up and obey.

If so, I can easily understand why the failed units are allowed to remain failed.  Cities can't or won't fill potholes, why would they repair charging stations that provide no revenue to the city or aggrandizement to the professional liars?

If a business owned them, you can be sure that they would keep revenue-producing assets working.

If I were a homeless leech in San Francisco, I would pitch my tent or park my shopping cart in front of a working charging station and charge any that wish to use it a fee.

It isn't as though the police would make me stop.

Oh, and 10% for the Big Guy, of course.

 

[gwalchmai]

6 hours ago, railfancwb said:

Being told not to charge the EV overnight at home because HVAC needs of the community are more important really boosts the demand for EVs

Oh, you racist nabobs of negativity... If electricity use is high at night because of HVAC, Utopians will just have to charge their EVs during the daytime, when no one is using much electricity. 

[gwalchmai]

2 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

You can go to jail for merely possessing a feather from one.

Unless you were an unemployable alcoholic with abandoned cars on concrete blocks in front of your trailer.

[DAKA]

Didn't I read somewhere that the copper wiring was being stolen and sold as scrap?

Does THE BIG GUY get 10% of that too...

[railfancwb]

25 minutes ago, DAKA said:

Didn't I read somewhere that the copper wiring was being stolen and sold as scrap?

Does THE BIG GUY get 10% of that too...

More common than one might think. A reason aluminum over steel core is increasingly used for distribution. Have read of cases where wanna be thieves got cooked.