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Fire safety as baseline
In Laizhou, charging-area fire safety is stepping from headlines into neighborhood life. Fire separation, extinguisher configuration and automatic power-cut protection are the bottom-line requirements stressed again and again in community charging construction. The three-year action plan issued 24 September 2025 as NDRC Energy 1250 targets 28 million charging facilities and over 300 million kW of public capacity by end of 2027, meeting more than 80 million EVs with a fast-plus-slow-plus-high-power network.
Avoid the build-but-ignore path
The heavy-construction, light-operation habit is the real trap. Dense piles that nobody repairs, with opaque billing and siloed data, remain a network without real throughput. This upgrade must write O&M and responsibility into the plan from the start. Properties can fold peak-valley tips into community education and add public piles to daily patrols. Long trips need real-time stall checks and off-peak planning. Prefer sheltered points in winter and keep connectors dry.
Service and assurance
Dongdian Huichong keeps a small service radius and writes response into contracts across Yantai's thirteen district lines, so communities, workplaces and public stations connect nearby without layered forwarding when something breaks. May e-bikes charge in stairwells? Not advised and often banned. Indoor thermal runaway seals the escape route; use centralized facilities with auto-stop, overload and short-circuit protection instead.