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Post by Dougs on Mar 26, 2024 20:29:33 GMT
I get like that with my phone ffs. Battery is fucked, obviously but sod that with a car.
Would like a little run around for local stuff though.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 26, 2024 20:35:42 GMT
If you have a driveway, they are honestly perfect for that. I just charge mine on the three pin and just pootle about most of the week. I do two 50 mile commutes and the rest of the time it’s just school run and the shops. It’s so cheap to run and it really is a delight to never go to the petrol station.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 26, 2024 20:39:36 GMT
I've said for years that the IW Council really should have been at the forefront of charge points etc. Very few people do more than 20 miles a day, bar workmen. It's perfect for it. Short sighted eejits.
I have a driveway of sorts (council even accidentally lowered the kerb when relaying the road too) but I hate seeing a car right outside the window. Might be OK with a small runaround though.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 26, 2024 20:45:10 GMT
Yeah, where you live would be perfect, especially as I suspect there is nowhere really to drive over 50 so you’re always in eco mode. Get some solar panels up and you’re laughing.
You’re right, it really would have been the perfect test bed to just go balls out on it.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 26, 2024 20:50:09 GMT
Yup, 40 is often a challenge. I guess the issue is the market isn't flush or full of early adopters (more Tesla's than I expected now mind, but that's only been in the last few years). So getting the charge point operators interested would have been difficult.
I'm lining up EV policy for my next role or so. So many similarities to broadband roll out.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 26, 2024 20:58:45 GMT
I was saying this today at work. If you’re phasing out ice cars, you need thousands more charge points and a cohesive strategy. It’s just chaos at the moment. Imagine if you needed a different credit card for every fucking petrol station you went in.
Like on Saturday, I went into Oxford and it took me ten minutes to get charging in the multi storey because they are on like their fourth operator of the charge point, so it had a load of charger ID tags on it and only one actually worked.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 26, 2024 21:00:58 GMT
Consolidation will take care of a lot of that but suspect that's a way off making a difference. I have some dealings with it at the moment but only from a local authority perspective. And they are mostly just flapping with no money at all.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Mar 27, 2024 8:34:46 GMT
It's just going to be one of the big oil fuckers hoovering up all the charging companies, Shell and BP have already started. This always happens at the start of an industry, lots of players then competition or unfair advantage from some other cunty industry wins over leaving with a few. However It's shameful that the EU hasn't created a standard for payments yet, so that we can tag along
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Post by elstoof on Mar 27, 2024 8:44:08 GMT
You need a different company’s app to pay for parking on every street in London, and they switch around every few months to keep it interesting. I have zero faith in charging infrastructure being sorted out before that
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Mar 27, 2024 8:52:17 GMT
You need a different company’s app to pay for parking on every street in London, and they switch around every few months to keep it interesting. I have zero faith in charging infrastructure being sorted out before that This is true...but the Car industry is a lot bigger than London It has to be fixed especially if it's going to replace ICE in 11 years.
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Post by gibroon on Mar 27, 2024 8:52:38 GMT
The Tesla charging is the way it should be for every charger. You rock up, pick up cable, flap opens as you get near it. Insert cable, start charging, payment goes to your account. They really are streets ahead with their infrastructure.
I've heard the electroverse card will do a lot of the chargers on different networks and give you a 10-15% off the standard rate.
Edit: From what I've heard, the majority of the time the chargers are down is due to the payment/scan card part of the machine. This is probably why Tesla chargers are so reliable. They don't have the card reader fuck ups the others have.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 27, 2024 8:52:52 GMT
It does need enforced interoperability like they tried with open banking. It doesn't matter so much if there are 1000 point operators if I can see and pay for 100% of them in Zap Map or Electroverse.
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