If you drive an EV in Australia you know of Chargefox. They operate/manage the largest public EV charger network in the country and have been suffering through an outage of their billing system for over 3 days, which appears to be hosted on Telstra's Cloud service. Telstra reckon a storage array at their Clayton data centre in Victoria crapped out on Sunday, but it's Wednesday now and there's still no ETA from Telstra on when that will be fixed - much to Chargefox's frustration. As far as drivers are concerned, some chargers have been punted into free access mode (i.e: they cost nothing to use - good for drivers, bad for the owner of the charger) or are offline entirely because they can't access Chargefox's billing system to take your money. Pretty embarrassing for everyone involved.
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