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Yes, if the charger is broken, it does make sense to reserve the space for charging. To maintain the standard of it being for charging only. If it is reserved for charging, but the charger is broken, then no one parks there until the charger is fixed. Unless the charger is being permanently taken offline, then the space should revert to parking for anyone.
This is because the charger being broken is a temporary status. If it turned into a free parking spot whenever the charger were broken, even if people didn't vandalize the charger they could simply say "oh, I thought it was broken", or "it was broken earlier when I parked here".
"no one parks there until the charger is fixed"
I disagree. That is a waste of valuable space (real estate). If a driver has to park to read a sign (or figure out whether a station is broken), that is ridiculous. Ticketing officers can easily tell if non-activation is due to the station owner or the driver. If a transaction is the condition for parking, and the station owner cannot complete the transaction, the driver cannot be penalized for that failed transaction.
If I park in a bakery parking lot "for customers only" and go in to buy a loaf of bread, the baker can't refuse the transaction because his oven is broken, and penalize me instead for parking without buying bread. The driver is not responsible whatsoever for the baker's broken oven and it would be ridiculous for the baker to penalize him for parking with intent to be customer.
The baker absolutely could penalize the person for parking there if, after being unable to purchase bread, the car owner left the car in that spot as they walked around the rest of the town. No one is suggesting a car owner be penalized the second they park in the spot. But if they decide to stay there after discovering it is not a valid spot, that is on them.
If the space is reserved for customers, and customers cannot exist because of the malfunction, the space is reserved for no one and therefore not reserved at all.
I've seen chargers being left broken for over a year. In the meantime, there was no way to tell whether they'll ever be back online.