Public EV chargers- is there a knack?

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Did anyone see that thing on channel 5 tonight?

Massively critical of the charging infrastructure


Electric car: EV charging ‘not where it needs to be’ as driver pays for no charge | Express.co.uk

ELECTRIC vehicle infrastructure is 'not where it needs to be' according to the Under Secretary of State for Transport, as a new TV programme analyses how the UK will adapt to an electric future.
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Electric car: Drivers face charging costs of £1,000 a year as 2030 target is 'unrealistic' | Express.co.uk

ELECTRIC car drivers face huge costs if they do not have access to driveways, as one expert claims the 2030 goal of installing EV chargers will fall far short.
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The network is poor mind. I’ve been lucky with no long trips due to COVID and great access to charging at work and where I live for the most part.

If we make it to Wembley I’ll be driving down, which will be the first big test of whether I can easily manage a long trip with at least one full re-charge out and about.

Hopefully find a Maccies with a 120kw Instavolt…
 


Gillythedilf said:
Electric cars at the moment are the tool of the lower middle classes to say “look at me”.They are absolutely f***ing useless to do anything but potter round the town .
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Extreme virtue signalling
I’m trying to save the world yet
Where do the raw material come from to make the batteries
Mines in Africa using children run by the Chinese
 
Shandy drinker said:
Extreme virtue signalling
I’m trying to save the world yet
Where do the raw material come from to make the batteries
Mines in Africa using children run by the Chinese
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Oh so the oil used to make petrol is all fairtrade certified is it? Reverse virtue signalling is just as bad as virtue signalling.

The petrol and diesel pumped into millions of cars each day is not only coming from countries exploiting thousands employed in the industry, it’s also funding regimes engaged in some of the most brutal human rights abuses in the modern world.

Every penny you send to Saudi is a penny that could be used to bomb yet more innocent children in Yemen.

The shoes you’re wearing, made in Bangladesh I bet. The clothes on your back? Pakistan or India maybe. Got any diamond jewellery? I wonder how many children died in South African mines for it.

I could go on…the world is brutal and almost all our consumer goods fund some sort of abuse of human rights or labour laws etc.
 
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Frijj said:
Oh so the oil used to make petrol is all fairtrade certified is it? Reverse virtue signalling is just as bad as virtue signalling.

The petrol and diesel pumped into millions of cars each day is not only coming from countries exploiting thousands employed in the industry, it’s also funding regimes engaged in some of the most brutal human rights abuses in the modern world.

Every penny you send to Saudi is a penny that could be used to bomb yet more innocent children in Yemen.

The shoes you’re wearing, made in Bangladesh I bet. The clothes on your back? Pakistan or India maybe. Got any diamond jewellery? I wonder how many children died in South African mines for it.

I could go on…the world is brutal and almost all our consumer goods fund some sort of abuse of human rights or labour laws etc.
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The difference surely is that, as with non-vegans, non-EV drivers just go about their business without feeling the need to let the world know they’re doing it and how bad everybody else is for not falling in line.

Evangelism is a worthy trait in some respects, but there’s always the zealots who take it that step too far.
 
Hair Flick said:
The difference surely is that, as with non-vegans, non-EV drivers just go about their business without feeling the need to let the world know they’re doing it and how bad everybody else is for not falling in line.

Evangelism is a worthy trait in some respects, but there’s always the zealots who take it that step too far.
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I don’t see many people shaming petrol drivers mind. Even I don’t, and I’m a sanctimonious prick.
 
Shandy drinker said:
Extreme virtue signalling
I’m trying to save the world yet
Where do the raw material come from to make the batteries
Mines in Africa using children run by the Chinese
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Virtue signaling? You give us ev drivers too much credit 90% of us have them either for much more shallow reasons like economy or performance both of which they have in abundance. Wish I could afford a tesla to have a better looking one like
 
Jonjo0789 said:
Virtue signaling? You give us ev drivers too much credit 90% of us have them either for much more shallow reasons like economy or performance both of which they have in abundance. Wish I could afford a tesla to have a better looking one like
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Certainly the fact that I'm saving £400 a month in company car tax had a large bearing on the choice although I didn't have a choice as the company has moved 100% over to non-ICE cars.

I always think it's quite ironic that people come on to these threads to say that people are virtue signalling about this that or the other. This is a thread started by an EV driver asking other EV drivers for advice. The non EV drivers then weigh in and say we're preaching at them and come up with all sorts of reason to not move from ICE cars. Why come on the thread if you haven't got an EV??!
It's was the same on the vegan threads a few years ago where all the meat eaters would pile in and castigate those who put their heads over the parapet and admitted to liking non meat meals and spent days berating them for not shutting up about their diets. Funnily enough you'd never see the vegans dropping into a thread on panack or how to cook a steak or poached eggs.

You even have people on the "cutting the grass thread" saying it's ridiculous and just pave over the lot or put hairy plastic down..!
 
Frijj said:
The network is poor mind. I’ve been lucky with no long trips due to COVID and great access to charging at work and where I live for the most part.

If we make it to Wembley I’ll be driving down, which will be the first big test of whether I can easily manage a long trip with at least one full re-charge out and about.

Hopefully find a Maccies with a 120kw Instavolt…
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I’ll be making the trip down on the Saturday morning - will get to Peterborough Services and charge up using Ionity 350kw rapid charge then into London for the game.
Travel back on Sunday morning and get fully charged up for the journey home in the same way.
 
Wicksy said:
I’ll be making the trip down on the Saturday morning - will get to Peterborough Services and charge up using Ionity 350kw rapid charge then into London for the game.
Travel back on Sunday morning and get fully charged up for the journey home in the same way.
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I am going to be doing the journey to the match and back in one day. I must be mad
 

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