Yeah, but how many of those 10,000 are working? I can name countless CCS chargers that have been out of service for more than a half year. Two years ago, there were more useable CCS chargers than today. I could ride my electric motorcycles much farther two years ago than I can today.
Focusing on the absolute number kind of misses the point. Yes, it's a milestone number, and obviously I used the opportunity of crossing the 10K number to make this post, but more important is the trend. Passing that milestone represents a growth of the network that we can then use to benchmark future growth. I.e. it took 12 years to reach the first 10,000, how many to reach the next? For example, we have already passed 11K in just over 5 months since this was posted.
At any rate, I do attempt to curate this data, and to a certain extent, rely on folks such as yourself to report chargers that are inoperative so I can deduct those from the count, so that hopefully, yes, 10,000 means 10,000 working stations. I'm not going to pretend that that's actually the case, but I do think it's probably closer than most other sources you'll find. I spend quite a lot of time reviewing stations to make sure they are accurately represented here.
A few examples of the CCS I used to use a couple of years ago, but no longer can:
1. Hawthone, NV. Totally dead for more than a year.
2. Fallon, NV. Totally dead for more than a year.
3. CA I-80 Donnor Summit East--totally dead for more than a year.
4. CA I-80 West--totally dead for around six months.
5. Incline Village, NV, dead for around seven months.
I checked out all 5 of these areas and for the first four, I am showing no entries, so no, those are not included in the current count. As for the 5th, I am assuming you are referring to the EVgo station at Raley's, which after investigating, I have now marked as Temporarily Closed. Oddly enough it's showing as temporarily closed in AFDC, so it is odd that I missed that change. And also I see you posted in that forum thread yesterday, but that post is not showing up in my "New Posts" feed, so SOMETHING is conspiring to keep this station's status hidden from me!
Also, countless new problems. Such as when ChargePoint updated their last FW, their CCS chargers no longer work at all with my Energica motorcycles.
In the area I am often in, there are a lot LESS working chargers than there were two years ago.
We are going in reverse, from what I can tell. It was all MJCH better two years ago than today in the places where I need CCS.
I won't dispute that in some areas there has been a significant pullback. In particular, many auto dealers (and Harley dealers in particular) have abandoned their relationship with ChargePoint, so the chargers are no longer technically on the ChargePoint network. In some cases they continue to work, but in others either something broke and they are not willing to fix it, or the stations have been completely removed. To be honest, I expect to see most dealerships abandon offering charging in the future--they probably never should have been in the business in the first place.
EVgo also has had some major pullbacks out of certain properties (WalMarts) and as part of the their "Renew" program they just shut down some sites completely.
That's not to say that they are shrinking. They are still growing. But unfortunately for you, it seems like the places that you go are the ones that are experiencing the pullback.
You may have to do a little advocacy yourself in the areas that you tend to travel to. Let businesses and representatives in those areas know that you would like to travel to those places and spend your money there, but until they can offer reliable charging, it's off limits to you. And you're not alone.
I can't say that approach works off the bat, but the more businesses start to hear that, the closer they get to realizing they had better get with the times.