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A new survey from J. D. Power found that one in five electric car owners that visited a charging station ended up not charging their vehicle ... 72% said the station was out of service or malfunctioning ... The executive director of global automotive at J.D. Power, Brent Gruber, said that the survey showed that public charging continues to hobble the EV market ... "Not only is the availability of public charging still an obstacle, but EV owners continue to be faced with charging station equipment that is inoperable" ...

All of that is totally true, however, none of that applies to the "EV King" Tesla in any way - it continues to power ahead (pun intended). Tesla is so far ahead of the rest of the auto industry it's not even funny. The Tesla CEO Elon Musk anticipated all those current charging station issues at least a decade ago. So Tesla already has a huge, highly reliable network of charging stations for Tesla EV owners. That's part of the reason why the rest of the industry is light-years behind Tesla. There was a recent report in which Musk said that demand for Tesla EVs is way higher than the supply. Presumably, Tesla's EV supply is still somewhat impacted by the global supply shortage of computer chips. My guess is Tesla is far more successful sourcing needed computer chips than the rest of the global auto industry, which as I said, is way behind Tesla in EVs. And who knows? The huge gap between Tesla and the rest of the global auto industry may still be widening as we speak.

The other issue is that the charging module for Teslas are different than the other brands.

In Europe they have standardized all the EV charging stations.
This is what needs to be done in North America/Central America.

This would be like if Ford had a different size gasoline tank hole than GM. GM had a different one than Honda, VW and Toyota.

EV charging needs standardization. Just like every 110 AC electrical outlet in North America and Mexico is the same.