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Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:19 pm
by MrLongbeard
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news ... ut-9008331
According to the RAC, who analysed data from charger locator service Zapmap, just 46 out of 119 services in England met the six charger target. However, Leicester Forest East was found not to not have any at all.
https://placetoplug.com/en/charging-sta ... S_Services
And the ones they do have aren't working (I assume that map is up to date, I was there last week when they weren't working), the look on drivers faces as they pulled in to find them out of order was not pleasant
Looking at the reviews / check ins they've been down for a couple of years, a major service station on one of the busiest motorways;
https://www.plugshare.com/location/2257 ... 0operation.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:26 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
I was Chieveley services on the M4/A34 last week, they've got bloody loads! I didn't count how many exactly, but they had at least three big groups of chargers.
The car park was quite literally buzzing with electricity.
Edit:
1x 11kW
4x 50kW
5x 100kW
12x 350kW
Seems to be what I can find at Cheively. So that one services has more high power charging than the "whole UK" as mentioned in that old Top Gear video.
Just having a look around - there are loads now. THere are 6x 350kW chargers just down the road (walking distance) from my house, then 6 more a mile down the road in the other direction.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:28 pm
by MrLongbeard
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:26 pm
I was Chieveley services on the M4/A34 last week, they've got bloody loads! I didn't count how many exactly, but they had at least three big groups of chargers.
The car park was quite literally buzzing with electricity.
Edit:
1x 11kW
4x 50kW
5x 100kW
12x 350kW
Seems to be what I can find at Cheively. So that one services has more high power charging than the "whole UK" as mentioned in that old Top Gear video.
Just having a look around - there are loads now. THere are 6x 350kW chargers just down the road (walking distance) from my house, then 6 more a mile down the road in the other direction.
Our town of 4000 souls has 6 x 7Kw chargers.
It's super rare for me to go anywhere where a load of chargers would be clustered together, but the past 2 times (last week and last year) they were out of order, the only ones I see consistently working is the Tesla bank @ Hopwood park
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:30 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:28 pm
Our town has 6 7Kw chargers.
There's more than that just outside my two local corner shops
There're a couple of 7kWers just randomly on the street a couple of hundred metres from here as well.
Deffo enormous regional variations!
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:31 pm
by MingtheMerciless
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:26 pm
I was Chieveley services on the M4/A34 last week, they've got bloody loads! I didn't count how many exactly, but they had at least three big groups of chargers.
The car park was quite literally buzzing with electricity.
Edit:
1x 11kW
4x 50kW
5x 100kW
12x 350kW
Seems to be what I can find at Cheively. So that one services has more high power charging than the "whole UK" as mentioned in that old Top Gear video.
Just having a look around - there are loads now. THere are 6x 350kW chargers just down the road (walking distance) from my house, then 6 more a mile down the road in the other direction.
That's an awful lot of load if they were all in use at the same time! I bet the nearby DNO/grid site is sweating when that lots on song.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:32 pm
by MrLongbeard
Sometimes you can charge more than one car
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Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:33 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Maybe they think it'll go three times faster if you park it like that.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:35 pm
by MrLongbeard
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:33 pm
Maybe they think it'll go three times faster if you park it like that.
At 7kw maybe they're just hoping for a faster charge.
It's from the local 'parked like a twat' facebook group, reckoning is that it ran out of charge and was unceremoniously dumped by the recovery truck
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:35 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
MingtheMerciless wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:31 pm
That's an awful lot of load if they were all in use at the same time! I bet the nearby DNO/grid site is sweating when that lots on song.
Yeah I had the same thought.
TBF those banks of 350kW are all part of dedicated charging stations, rather than plonked in a Tesco carpark. It's also extremely unlikely you'd get 6 cars which can actually accept 350kW simultaneously - at least at the moment.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:44 pm
by Slenver
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:35 pmIt's also extremely unlikely you'd get 6 cars which can actually accept 350kW simultaneously - at least at the moment.
Not sure there are any currently!
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:57 pm
by ZRX61
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:53 pm
by KungFooBob
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:01 pm
by Count Steer
I guess the early adopters have adopted + the models are getting old + the competition is getting going etc.
Meanwhile, British battery 'manufacturer' doesn't have a workforce to cut by 10%.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4rx2zxy7wo
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:27 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Last line of that article is the kicker...
"There is also the ongoing pressure from China as the rise of their inexpensive EVs have begun to flood the market with affordable models".
I suspect there are going to be several major casualties over the next 10 years or so. Lots of firms are going to wait and see what happens with EVs, if they're not careful that "what happens" is gonna be "you get replaced by a Chinese state sponsored enterprise".
China is very well placed to boot out the legacy European and US manufacturers during this paradigm shift. No-one was gonna buy a Dongfeng* over a Mercedes, but they might buy a BYD over a Tesla.
*Who? Exactly
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:31 pm
by KungFooBob
I see loads of them MG4's, they're cheap as chips and on 0% PCP, why buy a Tesla
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:47 pm
by Horse
Jaguar:
Jaguar will end production of the XE, XF and F-Type in a matter of weeks, as its Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham prepares to transition to production of body panels for a whole new line of vehicles.
The retirement of Jaguar's two saloons and its flagship sports car means the brand's line-up will become SUV-only, with just the I-Pace, E-Pace and F-Pace remaining on sale through 2024.
Jaguar's new era begins in 2025 with the introduction of a 600bhp electric four-seat GT car in the vein of the Porsche Taycan, which is thought to be followed a year later by a Bentley Bentayga-style luxury SUV and then a large luxury saloon. All will share the firm's new – and bespoke – JEA platform, and are entirely unrelated to its current models.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new- ... w-out-june
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:53 pm
by KungFooBob
Volvo have already gone SUV Only in the UK.
Ford stopped making the Fiesta because the Puma SUV was outselling it.
I hate SUV's, it seems I'm the only one.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:59 pm
by MrLongbeard
And the wait list on that carbuncle of a cybertruck is what 5 - 10 years
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:15 pm
by KungFooBob
Has anyone seen a Kia EV9 in the flesh yet?
I spotted one on tonight's commute.
OMFG, it's like someone crossed a Kia Soul with a new Defender and one of those Nissan Cube's. What a turd of a car.
Re: Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:26 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
No, but I've seen two Lotus Eletres!
