Electric Vehicles

I think that charging stations should display their prices like fuel stations.

I don't mean the ones on pavements or hotel car parks, but locations with 6 or more outlets.

Anyone else agree with me?

to my mind, its the most obvious place to put chargers. supermarket car parks were often always built for an imaginary capacity which would never be fully used, and in any case most people park close to the doors leaving the outer areas empty most of the time. Morrisons were the first to put rapids into their car parks and will replace those heaps of crap with MFG hubs in the coming years, Tesocs had the excellent but expired free charging VW/Podpoint tie-in but Sainsburys are actually rolling out high power hubs today. Asda are putting in machines at some sites, but mostly at their petrol station sites. Lidl and Aldi likewise have the same idea as Morrisons but are now woefully behind the curve.

Sainsburys have 7 hubs we can find information on, all opened from summer to this week:

Bristol Castle Court x7 (150KW kempower units) Bristol Emerson Green x9 Crayford x16 Exeter x8 Harrogate x8 Ludlow x8 Westwood Ramsgate x10

EV chargers cables owned by BP Pulse and Osprey Charging reportedly stolen from The Maltings Retail Park, Waitrose, Appletongate and Albert Street in Newark – with Nottinghamshire Police said to be investigating

Wow! Didn't expect this. Although the article is a bit confusing as to whether it's the network or just Tesla hardware. When I heard it on the radio this morning they specifically mentioned the supercharger network.

I cant argue with someones' nan's facebook feed telling them outright lies, but there is a hell of alot of misinformation being peddled - and not just from anti-EV people. Some very pro-EV people also talk total shit. If you havnt considered it, why not?

For those interested here is the UK portion of the EU wide Ten T Core network which is the infrastructure plan, road and rail for the transition to net zero. Since Brexit we have not been included in the formal plans because of reasons, but the plan is still being enacted here because those same HGVs and trains will still be arriving here, and will require the same network setup. This gives businesses some scope to plan as the scheme advances.

Basically in a nutshell the idea is to have rapid charging provision for cars, vans and HGV every 40-50 miles along the route, as well as rail freight integration at some stage - note the Eurostar franchise rights being up for negotiation with other operators for example, so it may become possible to travel with different operators through the tunnel. If that connects to Glasgow for example via HS2, or what’s left of it, then that service could be very popular for both passengers and freight. And ultimately now that Russia has moved its rail gauge to be compatible with the EU and the UK, you could potentially travel to Shanghai. Perhaps in our lifetime.

You can read about the wider project here https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructure-and-investment/trans-european-transport-network-ten-t_en

absolute hole. They even removed the slightly interesting Blue Boar name. Put a microbrewery and 40 rapid chargers in and i’ll basically be living there

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/4062479

The project would involve changing the use of the half an acre site, installing 18 electric vehicle charging points, with landscaping, resurfacing and other external works

“Hearing that the electric vehicle bubble is bursting with orders dropping exponentially. People are waking up to the scam 🙌”

In response to an article saying EVs now make up 30% of new registrations, he’s saying it’s all over for EVs.

The spectacular cognitive dissonance is as good as his goal v Blackburn

good for kids lungs and tfl bank balance

I thought I’d add this as well, it’s a fairly up to date map of where hub charging is being installed in the UK. Annoyingly it covers sites which might not happen, sites which have planning permission and sites with spades in the ground, but there is always the main map for sites actually completed which is always correct and up to date.

Interesting read, with the usual errors or assumptions found all across the UK news outlets regarding EVs.

An excellent new routing app, for example, plans you a route with chargers not just on motorways but within 2 minutes of an exit, or 1 minute if you don’t want to go far. You can get higher powered rapid charging on sites away from motorways with no real damage to your journey, often in brand new sites with new facilities. It’s actually not the best overall app but it’s a great feature

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/chargefinder-public-charging/id1434206736

I don't really see the point of this. It's just adding complexity for the sake of it. As far as I can tell when you change gear it just changes some software parameters, there are no physical gears. Yet there's a clutch and the ability to stall?

The rates for charging when using a Shell Recharge card on the Shell Recharge network are reducing. For fast (7-22kW) charging you will now pay £0.62/kWh, whilst rapid (25-150kW) and ultra-rapid (150kW+) charging network will cost £0.81/kWh. Paying with contactless payment methods will remain the same.

As of November 1st a £0.35 transaction fee, with a maximum of £7.00 per month, is charged for all charging sessions.

Interesting changes for EV charging. Not many but some significant ones:

1. all new chargers above 8kw must have a contactless payment pad
2. all operators must offer a 3rd party payment option such as Elli or Bonnet ie subscription discount service
3. reports of service status of a machine must be 99% and above, and a statement to the Secretary of State for Transport yearly

Lots of "unconfirmed" on here.

Big fan of Electrek news, but I’d actually never heard of Formula Sun before.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/3415093

Survey will help gauge development and placement of public charge-points

About to get my first plug-in car, and have some questions.

I work in the software industry so I know that all apps eventually get discontinued or abandoned, so what happens to my home EV charger when the app it needs is no longer available?

Are there generic home EV charger apps that work with other brands chargers?

Can I just not install the app? I'm not saying I'd avoid installing it, but knowing how the charger would behave in this scenario is important information.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/3229618

Early signs suggest the fire was started accidentally

You should have seen twitter last night trying to ban all EVs. It’s become a strange website which is entirely irrelevant, but full of people’s onions. I bet the Daily Mail had a helicopter on standby as well, ready to leap on Robert Llewellyn

EV Point (EuroGarages' network) appear to have been added to Electroverse!

Some of their points used to show up as ChargePoint and compatible, but I don't think they ever worked.

This article is a couple of weeks old, but interesting stuff.

The first results of UK Power Networks’ Park and Flex Study have revealed the enormous potential of using long-stay car parks, such as those at airports, to help power the grid.

Early research in the study has found that more than 1.3 million homes could be powered by filling up electric vehicle’s batteries in long-stay car parks when energy is cheap and demand is low - and returning that power back to the system during peak times.

The study used advanced modelling alongside both UK Power Networks’ and energy specialist Baringa’s forecasts for the number of electric vehicles on Britain’s roads in the coming years.

With airport parking, details of a customer’s flight dates can dictate the exact length of a vehicle's stay which gives the network operators greater insight into spare power or capacity.

I'm very surprised that there isn't legislation requiring a way to stop the car if it does run away. (Although it's quite possible that's what the police used once they got in the car, and the user missed it in the panic)

Kinda like how you should know how to stall engine runaway on a diesel.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5965151

Nissan to go all-electric by 2030 despite petrol ban delay::The carmaker moves ahead with its plan despite delays to the UK's ban on new petrol and diesel cars.