Rolled into work this morning. 6 of our 30 chargers were working

What a fucking day.

So yesterday a water main burst and closed our nearby road. Turning a roundabout into lake.

What I think happened. The electricity that supplies our on site substation that runs our EV charging system comes through a cable thats right by the flood. I’m assuming supply was cut to allow the water to be dealt with.

When power was restored it’s blown some breakers in the substation and as a result everything went tits up.

Vehicles didn’t get charged. Overhead reels wouldn’t retract. First couple of hours involved trying to get a service out, with vehicles with like 20% battery and without destroying any of the many dangling cables. Since then it’s just been trying to get some charge into some vehicles to replace the ones dying on the road for long enough to maintain some sort of service until power was eventually restored properly,

Fun day