Outage leads to electric car charging discounts

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Evie, one of Australia’s major public electric car charging providers, is offering a 30 per cent discount on charging until January 25 at 10pm AEDT, following an unexpected outage. The discount applies to different charger types, with the cost of charging a Hyundai Ioniq 5 dropping from $39.55 to $27.69 using a 350kW plug before 10pm. The outage was caused by unscheduled changes from a software partner, affecting 65 Evie-owned chargers. This is not the first time public electric car charging has been impacted by outages to third-party suppliers, such as the Optus outage in November 2023.

Brands mentioned: Hyundai, Optus, Evie, ChargeFox, Tritium