Electric vehicle adoption suffers from a giant black eye: There are nowhere near enough certified technicians to fix all the broken chargers. Nearly 4,000 public charging stations were out of service as of early October, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That’s an outage rate of more than 6 percent. 

Thousands of unusable #EVchargers could hinder #EV adoption as frustrated drivers complain about searching for functional plugs to keep their cars running.

The public and private sectors are making big investments to expand charging infrastructure, but there is a dearth of electricians to install and maintain the chargers. Electricians, training companies and installation providers all say the ambitious infrastructure goals will make that labor shortage even more acute.