It was found on the 2nd that 6,600 electric-vehicle chargers installed in apartment complexes in Korea have become useless due to operators’ financial troubles. That amounts to 1.2% of the country’s EV chargers. Large apartment complexes often entrust one or two operators with installing and running EV chargers. But under current law, when an operator goes bankrupt, there is no way to change the management entity of the chargers to the government or a local government, causing chargers to be left idle.
According to the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment that day, the apartment chargers currently out of operation nationwide were run by four small and…