EV Charging Station Maintenance 101: How and Why It's Important

The electric vehicle boom is in full swing, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) growing in popularity with every year that passes. According to the European Environment Agency, 10.7 million new cars were registered in 2023 across Europe, with approximately 2.5 million BEV or PHEV registrations. With governments under pressure to minimise carbon emissions and limit temperature increases, many have introduced incentives for buying electric vehicles (EVs), and announced future bans on the sale of non-EVs.

As a result, the number of EVs registered will likely grow at an exponential rate, placing additional pressure on the public and private EV charging station network across Europe to deliver power when it’s required.

This highlights the importance of the maintenance and repair of charging stations when they malfunction. With charging stations being installed in increasingly remote areas, field service workers and technicians need a rugged, reliable mobile computing solution to correctly diagnose any issues, and get motorists back on the road as quickly as possible.

Seamless performance and storage is essential

The interconnectivity between charging stations – and with the operator’s master network – means that the data from each station is critical when undergoing maintenance or repairs. 

It is therefore imperative that technicians utilise high-performance mobile devices that can instantly analyse data at the source. They must choose a device that can take advantage of the latest connectivity protocols – either wireless or wired – and one that can easily visualise a lot of data. This requires a high-performance mobile solution with market-leading processing power.

The volume of data from charging stations is usually high. Given that some charging stations are in remote locations, devices require strong and reliable connectivity to transmit across wireless networks. It also requires military-grade encryption to keep data safe.