The all things EV chat thread

[jim8flog]

My comment about this being a 2 year old article is largely about the availability of public chargers on or close to the M5 with many more having been installed in the 2 year time period.

More locally our council has installed 22kw chargers in all the major car parks in larger villages and the main town during the past 2 years. Costs are time dependent with after 8pm costing nearly the same as charging at home without a dedicated EV charger.

 

[Slime]

My comment about this being a 2 year old article is largely about the availability of public chargers on or close to the M5 with many more having been installed in the 2 year time period.

More locally our council has installed 22kw chargers in all the major car parks in larger villages and the main town during the past 2 years. Costs are time dependent with after 8pm costing nearly the same as charging at home without a dedicated EV charger.

Something else I don't want my council tax spent on.

 

[Deleted member 35927]

Something else I don't want my council tax spent on.

EV chargers would obviously recoup costs as the electricity isn't given away free. Moot point really.

 

[jim8flog]

Something else I don't want my council tax spent on.

When I say the council has installed them I doubt they paid for them just provided the space for them to the electricity company.
May be they even make money for them e.g if the space is leased.

 

[Deleted member 35927]

My comment about this being a 2 year old article is largely about the availability of public chargers on or close to the M5 with many more having been installed in the 2 year time period.

More locally our council has installed 22kw chargers in all the major car parks in larger villages and the main town during the past 2 years. Costs are time dependent with after 8pm costing nearly the same as charging at home without a dedicated EV charger.

The *balanced article is indeed 2 years old and, it's out of date and anyone who drives an EV and reads it will find it laughable, makes you wonder what the motives are to re publish after so much time.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Something else I don't want my council tax spent on.

Depends on the finances of it

If chargers have been put into council run car parks then the company will have paid to do it earning the council money and also prob get a little share of the usage

Don’t expect your council tax to have paid for the charger installs but your council tax will have paid for many other sustainable schemes

 

[Mudball]

Something else I don't want my council tax spent on.

Currently my council tax is only paying for more potholes to appear.
More places need to put up EV charging and ideally medium to high speed chargers. Put it in parks, supermarkets, malls etc. It will drive more footfall. Its mostly the electric companies paying for it..

And while i am on that soapbox, all new builds should be forced to install solar and EV chargers. provide 3 phase lines and let people charge. Most Finnish homes have 3 phase power supply, albeit for powering the Sauna and EV. We can skip the Sauna and focus on EVs.
Soon you will see people renting out thier driveway and allowing people to charge EVs.

 

[doublebogey7]

Currently my council tax is only paying for more potholes to appear.
More places need to put up EV charging and ideally medium to high speed chargers. Put it in parks, supermarkets, malls etc. It will drive more footfall. Its mostly the electric companies paying for it..

And while i am on that soapbox, all new builds should be forced to install solar and EV chargers. provide 3 phase lines and let people charge. Most Finnish homes have 3 phase power supply, albeit for powering the Sauna and EV. We can skip the Sauna and focus on EVs.
Soon you will see people renting out thier driveway and allowing people to charge EVs.

Just Park & Co-Charger amongst others have been offering that for a considerable amount of time.

 

[Slime]

When I say the council has installed them I doubt they paid for them just provided the space for them to the electricity company.
May be they even make money for them e.g if the space is leased.

Ah, that's a different kettle of fish.

 

[harpo_72]

Stopped at Beaconsfield services on the M40 today for a quick charge and go. I used the Ionicity chargers and was just making my way over to the free one as the others were occupied, when some drives through all the car parking spaces from behind me to take it… not seen this done before but if this is the game then someone will be hurt.
Anyway I waited a few minutes in a space opposite and when one became free I just made sure I was in it. The speed was okay at 79kwh and I just did a 7minute blast to give me enough miles to get home without any warnings.
As we left there were 3 cars waiting, so more chargers would be wise.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Stopped at Beaconsfield services on the M40 today for a quick charge and go. I used the Ionicity chargers and was just making my way over to the free one as the others were occupied, when some drives through all the car parking spaces from behind me to take it… not seen this done before but if this is the game then someone will be hurt.
Anyway I waited a few minutes in a space opposite and when one became free I just made sure I was in it. The speed was okay at 79kwh and I just did a 7minute blast to give me enough miles to get home without any warnings.
As we left there were 3 cars waiting, so more chargers would be wise.

How many chargers does a typical service station have ?

 

[Deleted member 35927]

How many chargers does a typical service station have ?

How long is a piece of string, but you can look on zapmap or similar and find out. Some may have 10 or more others 2 or 3, also there is Tesla.

I can see there are 11 chargers at Beaconsfield
7 ionity
4 gridserve

 

[PhilTheFragger]

How many chargers does a typical service station have ?

Depends
Oxford on the M40 has a plethora of Tesla chargers, but only 1 old BP charger

Therefore our drivers avoid using it

We are seeing a growing number of charging hubs close to the motorway network, there is a very good one at Banbury and another very good one at Silverstone.

Way to go, but ultra fast public charging is being rolled out

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Depends
Oxford on the M40 has a plethora of Tesla chargers, but only 1 old BP charger

Therefore our drivers avoid using it

We are seeing a growing number of charging hubs close to the motorway network, there is a very good one at Banbury and another very good one at Silverstone.

Way to go, but ultra fast public charging is being rolled out

A bit like the one here on the A5 which is about 5 miles from the motorway ? Built a Starbucks and about 20 charging points I think

 

[harpo_72]

How many chargers does a typical service station have ?

6 at this services, but it’s a major one.
The services on the m5 were 20+

 

[Deleted member 35927]

6 at this services, but it’s a major one.
The services on the m5 were 20+

There are some gridserve too apparently

 

[harpo_72]

There are some gridserve too apparently

Just found them on the sat map only 5 I think

 

[Mudball]

I found Gridserve to be pretty good in my recent travels to lake district. Esp their high speed ones. For some reason on the very busy M6 toll, they have only medium power - about 4-5 of them and are always busy.
Further up north, we got into a services just before lake district turn off, there were loads of high speed grid serve... all it took was about the time to drink coffee.

If ever Gridserve gets onto Octopus it would be great. I had to sign up to gridserve while on the M6 to get 79p rather than the 85p..

 

[Oddsocks]

Can someone explain this logic as I can’t get my head around it.

Yesterday travelling back from West Bromwich I stopped at one of the services. A lovely lady in a plug in hybrid was sitting there with her car on a fast charge no doubt paying a huge motorway premium for a fast charge. Given the range on this specific hybrid is 35-40miles on electric, what would be the theory in paying 80p p/kw when the car is a dual fuel and the petrol garage was 50m max from the charger.

 

[Burnsey]

Can someone explain this logic as I can’t get my head around it.

Yesterday travelling back from West Bromwich I stopped at one of the services. A lovely lady in a plug in hybrid was sitting there with her car on a fast charge no doubt paying a huge motorway premium for a fast charge. Given the range on this specific hybrid is 35-40miles on electric, what would be the theory in paying 80p p/kw when the car is a dual fuel and the petrol garage was 50m max from the charger.

EV dogging.