 were faulty when BBC Disclosure did spot-checks on the network.A snapshot over a six-week period of the state of the 2,200 chargers installed using Scottish government grants uncovered issues at 535 units.Faults ranged from broken plugs and screens to the system being offline. Transport Scotland said it would review the data but its own measurements suggested only a 2% fault rate.There are still only about 50,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on Scotland's roads, just 2% of the total.But uptake has grown rapidly over the past year.By 2030 new petrol and diesel cars will be banned and there are forecast to be up to a million EVs in Scotland which will all need somewhere to charge.Image caption, Laura Young said it was becoming more of a struggle to charge her carLaura Young, an environmentalist who has fronted Scottish government campaigns on sustainability, has been driving an EV for three years and said it had become more difficult to find public charging points that were working and available."Now it's definitely more of a struggle," she said."There's less available because there's more electric cars putting pressure on them."She told the BBC Disclosure programme Electric Cars - Ready for the Charge? that the crumbling public charging infrastructure had made her consider whether she would "pack this in" and go back to fossil fuel cars.Laura, who campaigns as Less Waste Laura, lives in a second floor flat in Dundee, with no driveway, so she is entirely reliant on public charging."There's a lot that are broken," she said. "And so it's a bit more of a faff, and a bit more of an inconvenience, and I find it really difficult to charge easily. And it's become a bit more of a disruptor for my life." "At the beginning, when I was driving along the street, you would see another){kind=link}
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Laura Young said it had become more difficult to find public charging points that were working and available
Almost a quarter of Scotland’s public charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) were faulty when BBC Disclosure did spot-checks on the network.
A snapshot over a six-week period of the state of the 2,200 chargers installed using Scottish government grants uncovered issues at 535 units.
Faults ranged from broken plugs and screens to the system being offline.