Everty EV Charger abandoned, AGL acquired a nightmare and needs to fix it immediately – techAU

Electric Vehicle owners rely on EV charging infrastructure for their transport needs. EV Network Provider’s last press release on their website was from back in December 2022, says they planned to roll out as many as 80 charging stations nationally.

One prime example of where this EV charging maintenance and availability has fallen very short of acceptable, is the EV charger in Cobram, VIC that is run by Everty.

Having visited the location a number of times, I’ve experienced this outage personally and have been monitoring the status to see how long it took to resolve.

I first covered this charger back in May 25, 2023 ‘Regional town of Cobram gets new EV Fast Charger on the Everty network‘, then again on July 9th, 2024 ‘Recharge Review: Cobram’s Electric Vehicle DC Fast Charger by Everty‘.

The charger located at Federation Park, Punt Road, Cobram is a Delta DC Fast Charger offering 50 kW charging speed, featuring 2x CCS2 connectors and is operated by the Everty network.

Unfortunately having visited the charger again yesterday, I can confirm it is still offline, more than 5 months after the last successful charging session.

The following data comes via charging site PlugShare where EV owners check-in and share their charging experiences with others.

The charging data spans from September 1, 2023, through to March 7th, 2025 (including my attempt yesterday). This represents a span of 554 days.

During that time, the availability data shows a total of 49 attempted charging sessions (check-ins).

EV Charger Availability Summary

The data reflects a total of 50 charging sessions, capturing the reliability of the chargers over the observed period. Among these, there were 32 sessions classified as broken, indicating instances where the chargers failed to activate, displayed faults, or were otherwise non-functional. This number represents a significant portion of the overall sessions, highlighting persistent issues with the charging infrastructure.

In contrast, 14 sessions were successful, meaning the chargers worked as intended and allowed vehicles to charge without reported problems. These working sessions account for 28% of the total, calculated as 14 divided by 50, multiplied by 100, equaling 28%. This suggests that while functionality was achieved in some cases, it was far less frequent compared to the failures.

Additionally, in 4 sessions, it was not clear if the user was able to charge or not. Given this data comes from motivated EV owners, it is likely the number that attempted to charge at the location, seen the charger was offline and simply left, the real number of potential charging sessions impacted by outages, would be much higher.

Overall, the broken sessions dominate the dataset, comprising exactly 64% of all sessions. This is not even close to good enough and needs to be fixed immediately.

EV Charger Abandoned

Not only has this charger faced an extended 5+ month outage, the display is now showing a technical error. The error says:

The unit internal disk lifetime is rapidly decreasing. Please consult the documentation how to reduce wear or how to minimise it.

This error suggests the internal hard drive on the charger is filling up rapidly, likely a result of logging out all the errors in charging sessions.

I would like to imagine these errors are being received by Everty, however there’s no evidence that anything other than 100% abandonment has occurred here.

It’s not clear how many of the planned 80 chargers were actually installed, and how many have been left unavailable like this one in Cobram. It’s a really disappointing outcome one that’s completely unacceptable.

I also expect the local Moira Shire are feeling misled, having carved out prime real estate for the charging location which is effectively now useless.

Acquired by AGL

While there’s no press release on the Everty website, a visit to their LinkedIn page shows us that Everty outages and maintenance is now AGL’s responsibility, with the acquisition announced 1 month ago.