3 of 5 EV drivers with home charging use public chargers weekly

Automakers are inclined to quote a determine usually: That about 85% of EV drivers cost at residence the vast majority of the time.

That stated, survey results out this previous week from EV charging software program firm ChargeLab underscore that the truth is extra nuanced. 

Wanting particularly at these with residence charging, the agency discovered that whereas which may be the case, 59.6% of these with entry to residence charging nonetheless use public chargers no less than a number of days every week, whereas 8.2% of that home-charging group really flip to public charging day-after-day. 

Office charging performs an necessary function, too. Simply over 40% of the EV drivers surveyed have EV charging out there there. 

The outcomes come from a periodic public charging survey launched final week. ChargeLab gives an working system for EV chargers constructed for the Open Cost Level Protocol (OCPP) communication customary. It’s based mostly on a ballot of simply 500 EV drivers within the U.S. within the fourth quarter of 2023.

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Throughout all use instances, greater than half of EV drivers had been discovered to make use of public chargers each week. ChargeLab discovered that 30.9% of the EV drivers it surveyed use a public station “a number of instances every week,” whereas 22.7% use one “most days.”

Simply over two-thirds of respondents stated that they like apps as a solution to discover public charging, whereas greater than two out of 5 stated they use Tesla’s system. About 35% of respondents stated that they primarily drive a Tesla EV, so it underscores that not all Tesla drivers maintain to that ecosystem. 

The outcomes are the newest to level out that U.S. public charging points aren’t so simple as laying out a freeway road-trip community, and lots of EV drivers are counting on the general public charging networks to complement their charging at residence. As J.D. Energy identified with survey outcomes final 12 months, almost half of consumers see public charging as a dealbreaker. Charging station availability has ranked excessive amongst reasons for rejecting EVs.  

ChargeLab survey – EV charging information privateness questions

ChargeLab additionally requested about information and privateness, and it famous that People are comparatively open about sharing primary particulars just like the make, mannequin, and 12 months of their EV—if it ends in higher charging efficiency or reliability. 

In response to the survey, which didn’t ask straight about EV charger cybersecurity issues, almost 70% of EV drivers could be keen to choose in to share no less than a few of their charging information for the sake of enhancing the expertise. However that help wasn’t with out boundary; it discovered about 57% had been comfy with that, whereas lower than half had been comfy with the gathering of particular person charging habits or billing information.