“The Reliability Issue Nobody Blames on the Cable”

Read the short series on fast charging cables and connector reliability

Every time you plug in a public fast charger, you form an opinion about it before you even see a screen — how it seats, whether it locks in cleanly, whether it feels like it's going to work.

That first impression isn't random.

It's data. Public charging reliability gets blamed on apps, networks, and payment systems. Rarely on the thing actually in your hand. We went looking at what the reliability studies actually say about the cable and connector itself — and found a pattern the industry doesn't talk about enough.

We wrote it up in "The Reliability Issue Nobody Blames on the Cable" — the first in a short series on cable and connector reliability in high-power EV charging.