Usually shortages show up when prices can't adjust freely. Are charging prices capped?
I mean, if you could do something where the price would reflect demand in a given area, I bet you'd have people installing more. Maybe auction off reserved charging timeslots or something ("app, find and reserve for me the closest charging station with a rate of no more than X"), if that isn't already done.
Charging prices are usually depending on the contracts people have. So I can go to any charger in Germany and the prices will be the same, no matter the day or time.
Usually shortages show up when prices can’t adjust freely.
They show up anytime demand outstrips supply. Pricing problems are the most familiar but in this case there's a fundamental issue with infrastructure. Building EV Chargers is long term work that requires shedloads of money to be invested in both the charging points themselves and the electrical infrastructure required to power them; everything from power generation to transmission.
You can build 1,000 EVs in week but building a charging station for them could easily take two years and require a hundred million dollars. We're building EVs so fast that the infrastructure part simply can't keep up.
They are overpriced as it is. That's one of the reasons electric cars aren't more in demand. They are far more expensive, but if you can't charge at home you don't even save in operating costs.
