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What I'd like to know, if it has happened, is have NZ EV owners experienced instances of Public chargers not working\being faulty. Back in the summer on a road trip back from Rotorua to Wellington, I did see an instance where the public charger at the Waiouru Army Museum was offline, and a user was having to wait until it became available again.

 

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I haven't had any problems with public chargers yet. I haven't come across any that have been broken and I also haven't had to wait. Broken chargers do happen though and are especially annoying for people stopping in towns that have only the one DC charger. But as with the above, this is becoming less of an issue as many towns and cities start to gain more than a single charge spot.

 

Yes, one of my brother's hit a snag in Thames several weeks ago, en route to Pauanui.  Charged up at Pokeno but needed a second charge at Thames (Leaf).  Noticed that the Thames charger was grey in the app but not having encountered that before did not realise the significance!  On reaching Thames around 4:30 pm discovered that the one and only fast charger (Chargenet) was out of action.  I  gather it had been for about a week.  A BMW i3 also pulled up at the charger while they were there.  Brother did not have sufficient charge left to make it to Pauanui, nor to get back to Pokeno.  Searched around and located a shop where he could slow charge but by then it was just before 5 pm.   Shop(?) was about to close and understandably not able to help.  First petrol station they checked also could not help.  Eventually located another petrol station that provided access to a 3-pin plug.  Four hours sitting in their car to get to ~70% charge so rather late in the night before they got to their motel in Pauanui.  There they discovered the BMW i3 parked in the adjacent unit.  In that case though, the i3 had just sufficient juice left and were able to make it to Pauanui without charging at Thames.

Needless to say, brother now looking at options such as a used eTron etc.