Why was Wall•E the only remaining Wall•E unit?

In the movie WALL•E the Buy n Large company intiates the five year plan "Operation Clean-Up" to clean Earth and make it habitable again. Eventually the plan is deemed a failure and directive A113 is issued, declaring Earth a lost cause and setting the stage for the approximate 700 year time lapse.

During this time the Waste Allocation Load Lifter • Earth Class robots continue to do their job, that is, they continue to compress the trash into cubes and stack it in nice neat piles. By the time of the movie, the WALL•E we get to know is the only (apparent) remaining WALL•E unit still in operation.

My question is, why is this WALL•E unit the only one that is still operating? BnL technology was clearly built to last (many digital billboards and advertisements still work, automatic doors work etc) and there were lots of WALL•Es involved in Operation Clean-Up (we can see the "dead" remains of many of them in the opening sequences). Since they had the ability to scavenge their dead brethren then there should have been at least a couple more still in operation, considering the stockpile of parts that Wall•E had accumulated.

Answer

The Wall•E we know is "faulty", the fault being personality, (like that of Johnny 5 from Short Circuit). Instead of just compacting trash, he shows interest in other things; objects, his existence, and eventually his survival, causing him to scavenge parts to keep him self going, to feed his curiosity for the solitary world he inhabits.

To answer another question someone asked, why EVE probes are still being sent out after A113 initiative to cancel operation recolonize. This A113 initiative is classified beyond the captain's security clearance and was sent to the autopilot, therefore the probes must still show to be actively seeking life on Earth. Can you imagine if people on the ship knew Earth was completely abandoned?

Source: My son has watched the film and extras almost everyday over the past year, causing my brain to absorb useless movie trivia.

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