Current± Briefings: Maintaining EV charging confidence through maintenance

The rollout of EV charge points in Britain is continuing to pick up pace, growing by around 30% in 2022 from 28,458 to 37,261, a new record for the highest number of UK charge points installed within a year. While this rollout is helping to reduce range anxiety, this progress could be hampered if the charge points themselves are often broken or closed.

In the past, charge point operators have been able to maintain their networks of EV charge points in a relatively manual fashion. But as these networks grow to cover thousands and thousands of chargers across the country, this becomes increasingly challenging.

So, how can operators continue to grow their networks without letting the maintenance, and therefore quality, of the charge points within them slip? In the latest in our Current± Briefings series, we talk to Techniche about the challenge of charge point maintenance, how software is stepping up to manage this, and how this can help drive forwards EV adoption.