[chrisandchris]

> ... there's no requirement ...

Is a requirement really necessary? I'm not aware that any requirement exists to keep your petrol station running (well, maybe there is one). And I'm sure it's not necessary to have one, because if your station does not work you go out of business very fast.

So why are these companies still in business if it's profitable to have non-working charging stations?

[two_handfuls]

At least sometimes, yes. WV’s charger network (“electrify America”) is notorious for perennially broken chargers, and when the government announced the next round of subsidies was contingent on the chargers actually working then suddenly WV got serious about maintenance.

[lesuorac]

> So why are these companies still in business if it's profitable to have non-working charging stations?

Pretty sure the government pays them the cost of installing the charger + profit. So they're just in the business of installing chargers.

While I don't think anybody pays you to just build gas stations so you'll need to operate it to recover your initial investment.

[pjc50]

I wonder if there's some kind of ridiculous accountability split like the famous McDonalds non-working ice cream machines.