Sustainable Transportation Lab


September 23, 2025

How does public charging reliability affect willingness to purchase an EV?

Year after year, stories of poor charging experiences have made headlines (see, for example, 2022, 2023, 2025). Although public charging station reliability is improving, a recent report shows that drivers are increasingly dissatisfied. In a new paper published in Transport Policy, Professor Don MacKenzie, UW Tacoma Affiliate Professor Casey Quinn, and I examined how perceptions…