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Carmakers Are Still Sorting Out Europe’s EV Charging Issues
Ford frets over whether grids are ready, while Renault feels boxed-in by bidirectional charging limitations.
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Automakers bringing new electric vehicles to market in Europe are virtually united in common gripes — not about consumer demand or government subsidies, but about issues with plugs.
Ford Motor Co., for instance, is rolling out an all-electric Explorer model manufactured in Cologne, Germany. “There is one thing I am really concerned about,” Martin Sander, the head of the company’s EV business in Europe, said in an interview: getting the grid ready to receive EVs from Norway in the north, to the Italian island of Sicily in the south.