• budget
• electric vehicle
• failure modes
• maintenance
• optimization
• planning
• RCM

Electric vehicles (EVs) are mainly known for their advantages as emission free, energy efficient and noiseless transport, but electric mobility has never matured in the automotive market and it remains in the shadow of the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The EV penetration depends so much on the availability of the charging facilities. The availability and the performances of the charging infrastructure will have a major impact on the satisfaction of electric vehicle drivers and therefore on the future viability and successful of the technology. In this context, maintenance will play a key role to ensure appropriate levels of availability and reliability and also to keep the expensive infrastructure in good conditions for a long time: it will need to have a long and trouble free life, if it is to persuade the typical car user to change his behavior and choices.
This paper will provide a long-term maintenance plan, in which the preventive maintenance tasks will be defined based on the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) approach, starting from the definition of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure and explaining how it works and by which components it is constituted.