Survey after survey has shown that worries about charging — specifically, public charging — is holding buyers back from electric vehicles. Americans are still hesitant to buy in, and largely because of concerns around charging.
The question remains, how long — and how severely — will charging hamper the EV revolution, right as its finally picking up steam? There’s a groundswell forming to expand and improve the U.S. charging landscape, but experts agree there’s a long road ahead.
“The reliability of public chargers continues to be a problem,” said Brent Gruber, who leads JD Power’s EV practice. “The situation is stuck at a level where one of every five visits ends without charging, the majority of which are due to station outages.”
