UK Rapid Charging Network 99% reliability law

[Onshore]

I think Australia needs to take a close look at this development, especially while taxpayer grants are being doled out.

The poms are introducing a law, requiring EV "rapid" charging networks to be 99% reliable or better.

New law to make EV charging network 99% reliable | Autocar

Government moves to tackle the varying reliability of the UK’s charging network

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[Hairyman]

I think it is a good idea. Listening to Fully Charged then reliability has been a nasty problem, but much better for the major networks in recent times.

I wonder how much it is a combination of the two - reliability of equipment and repairs has improved now to the point where you can enact the legislation to clean out the laggards in the market and set a standard for the future.

 

[Gareth Oakes]

I wonder how they measure 99%, I had a quick look but couldn't find a bill or Act relating to this. Presumably the 99% reliability doesn't apply to individual chargers otherwise no one would want to install one!

 

[Zoltrix77]

Unless it involves a government handout and is stipulated in a contract, I could not support it as a law. The market will soon enough sort out the pretenders.

 

[PC__LoadLetter]

If a year is 525,600 minutes, 99% means allowable downtime of 88 hours per year. It’s an interesting thought experiment.

But my focus would be on how charging operators would game the regulations, which would be inevitable. Would they add 9 destination chargers alongside every rapid charger so downtime per-stall is 10% what it could have been? Would those 9 destination chargers be signposted? Or would they even be in valid parking spaces (the ones at Jax Warrawong never were). And would those destination chargers run at 22kW or 2.4kW or something in-between?