It gets worse
 

Hmm, not too late for me to change careers. $33/hr currently, but if demand exceeds supply of workers, that price can't hold.

Why would you need a journeyman to fix a charger?

Couple places I worked, the techs were trained to follow a certified process which negated the need for high skill. If they ran across something really intricate/difficult, they called home to the help desk.

Worse case; back in the day, IBM evolved to board swapping until it was fixed. If it was really fubar, they replaced the whole unit.

'electricians'
 

So that's 20,286 electricians, a year, out of a population 336,000,000 citizens.
406- trainees per year, per each state of the republic.
Obviously 'impossible.'
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In 1976, during a college field trip, I visited a local manufacturing facility which used computer-aided machining.
If anything went 'wrong' with the equipment, the operator dialed the phone number of the milling machine manufacturer back east. The computer on the other end of the line diagnosed the problem, and sent a message, instructing the operator to change out a particular plug-in circuit board ( of which the factory held in inventory ) to bring the machine back online.
The 'multimillion dollar' mill was back in service within minutes, and never required anyone with more than a high school education to 'fix' it.
In the present day of 'over-the-air' updates 'n such, I don't see a problem.

I switched from letter carrier, to fleet manager, to electronic technician, to traveling area maintenance technician at the post office over the last 2 years. I was going to retire in 3.5 years but had been thinking this new gig is too easy to retire. I could be convinced if it payed about $50/hr including driving time. Thats more than I make now, but why would I leave for less when more time also keeps increasing my retirement? The PO may need a bunch more electricians too with the fleet electrification.

It probably depends on what is failing. The circuit boards and communication links can be back doored, but there are also some dangerous high voltage connections, inverters, and transformers, cooling systems, etc. That would need actual electricians. These things are probably more complicated and dangerous than commercial HVAC systems.

Right now I work about 2 days out of 5 for about $35 an hour so not that interested in being an electrician unless it's for my self.

Aptera and Xbus look better every day. The best plug is no plug.

I don't care much about the money as long as it's reflective of the value added.

Easy gigs bore me to death and I grow to despise them. Doesn't matter if I'm getting paid a ton to do something that doesn't challenge me.

Electricians don't have an easy job. They crawl on their bellies through puddles of water under houses, and tiptoe in rafters in 130 degree attics. It's work to be proud of though, because one has endured the situation and made a thing better afterwards.

About the same rate I'm at. It's not the electrician's wage that is alluring to me, but the opportunity to eventually own an outfit. My personality requires that I'm either the janitor with no responsibility, or the owner with all the responsibility. Middle-management are for people who enjoy being a bully, or incompetent at making the big decisions.

Cant see where they install this stuff in hard to access places. No crawling around under, over or hard to get to. Federal and universal muni Code requires power turn off within 6ft, so it's not a shock hazard. Only major requirements could be some sort of lifting device. Everything else is plug and play with sealed modules because you dont want your service people poking around the innards. Worse case the repair person needs a weeks training doesn't need the 36 weeks electronics course I required for servicing nuke missiles. All the techs I see lately have pictures and instructions they watch on their phone.

So I stand on my original comment regarding service. Ain't rocket science, and I am qualified to determine that.

I'm considered a superior but not in charge of anyone. It's great.

Liability. You know, dealing with high voltage is far from dumbproof, and if some random guy who is not properly trained regarding both electricity itseld and proper use of protective equipment, an accident may be quite expensive...

Liability here in the US would be held by the repair organization unless that was a single person operation. They would probably go after the charger company, the installer, the property owner and anybody else they can associate and has funds/insurance.

Your key comment is properly trained, journeyman is a pay grade

When I said my job is now easy, I didn't mean taskless, doing nothing. Compared to the mindless, repetitive, physical job without responsibility, as a letter carrier. Now I have a less physical job with responsibility and use my brain in a variety of ways. For awhile I did do work all night while the machines ran and I was sort of just on call waiting for something to break. Some nights nothing broke. That was too boring and working all night sucked. Now I do jack of all trades repairs. One day I'll be doing HVAC, another electrical repair, locksmith, then plumbing, another I'll just be painting lines in the parking lot. It's also cool because I can look at a job and deem it beyond my ability or availability, or unsafe for the tools available (I dont have a bucket truck for really high work), then it gets farmed out to a contractor. All work if possible is supposed to be done by a post office employee more along, those dollars should stay in house. But if something looks like that ****ty crawl around in the spider hole job, I can just pass and they hire a contractor instead. I don't even have to be the one finding and hiring. The best part is I do a 150 mile radius so I'm sometimes just driving on the clock 6 hours a day which I have always liked.

I guess you know what I meant, keeping someone without proper training in charge (no pun intended) of the maintenance of recharging infrastructures.

I worked a number of technical jobs including inspections and testing. Once a notice came up for a wind mill technician. Everything looked fine until I got to the part about being able to rappel 200 feet.

The biggest issue we've had with chargers at work is payments and communication with the vehicle. Generally it is something that can be reset and fixed remotely but the average person doesn't call the number on the charger - they just move to the next one.

The basic electrical components are pretty reliable.