As of: February 8, 2024, 7:15 a.m
By: Martin Becker
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This e-charging station at the FEZ also doesn't work.
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Three public e-charging stations in Unterhaching have been broken for weeks.
After several weeks, the community is working hard on a solution.
Unterhaching
– With its self-imposed goal of becoming climate neutral by 2030, the municipality of Unterhaching is relying on a variety of measures to accelerate the energy transition.
This also includes offering incentives for switching to electric cars.
For this purpose, the municipality has had 14 municipal e-charging stations built.
“Unterhaching is charging” with “100 percent green electricity” is written in large letters on the pillars. But three of them don’t work, and have been doing so since Christmas.
The charging stations at the cemetery, at Münchner Straße 44 and at Parkstraße 15 at the FEZ shopping center are affected.
Citizens angry: “It feels like no one cares”
“I ask myself, if the charging infrastructure is in such a state, how will the energy transition work?” complains a person from Unterhaching who likes to use the e-charging stations himself.
His impression: “Even after numerous fault reports and complaints, no one seems to care about it.”
City hall speaks of a complex technical malfunction
When asked by Münchner Merkur, town hall spokesman Simon Hötzl assured that they were working “hard” to fix the problem and that the three charging stations that had been switched off would probably be back online at the end of February.
“It is a complex technical fault.
It wasn't just a fuse that blew out." We have a lead and hope to be able to locate the error soon.
The charging station itself, the payment systems, software for the electricity and for the organizational connection to the municipality: “It is a network of dependencies of many people involved,” explains Hötzl.
Apparently the software doesn't work together with these three charging stations, "and then they automatically go off the grid."
Electromobility: More private initiative required
After more than two months, this electricity should flow into the electric cars at the end of February.
“But of course we cannot replace private initiatives,” emphasizes Hötzl. “In the long term, the energy transition and electromobility would only work if there were enough charging stations in private underground car parks.
“There is still a long way to go, which we as a municipality wanted to take by taking a pioneering role in public charging infrastructure.”