October brings pumpkins, ghosts, and spooky stories. In the EV charging world, the real horror isn’t supernatural. It is when your charger suddenly stops working. Behind the scenes, “ghosts” take the form of unstable power, poor maintenance, or networks that fail when they are needed most. Some operators have learned how to turn those fears into real power.
What drivers face in the wild
Independent data shows the real scare is failed sessions and unreliable sites.
J.D. Power reports that public charging reliability and availability remain top issues for drivers, with failed charging events still too common. Its 2025 update notes reliability and availability continue to be a top concern even as some metrics improve.
NREL links station reliability to real travel behaviour. When sites go dark, drivers change plans and confidence drops, which hurts adoption and usage.
Schneider National — Powering Through the Fear of Downtime
At its Southern California Intermodal Operations Center in South El Monte, Schneider operates nearly 100 electric trucks. The site uses 16 dual-corded 350 kW chargers that can charge 32 vehicles at once. By the end of 2024, the fleet had logged more than 6 million zero-emission miles, equivalent to removing more than 2,100 gasoline cars from the road for an entire year.
viveEV — Real Power, No Tricks
These stories point to a simple truth. Electrification succeeds when charging is engineered to last.
At viveEV, we make that reliability real through:
High-power DC fast chargers.
Dynamic power sharing across multiple dispensers so capacity goes where it is needed.
Real-time monitoring and remote diagnostics to help minimize downtime and speed recovery.
Compact form factors for tight sites, including our new Tron!
Halloween ghosts fade after a night, but unstable infrastructure can haunt your business for years.
With viveEV, you won’t be left in the dark.
👻 Ghosts may or may not be real.
But our power and reliability are no myth.