As it’s Mental Health Week and ranting is good for the soul I thought I’d cleanse mine by having a good rant at some of the UK electric car charger networks!
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Holding your money is what used to and in some cases still does happen to your wages. The Banks receive your wages up to 3 days before it shows up in your account this money is pooled with all the others (especially Govt wages) and invested in the Overnight futures exchange the profit they make on your money is 100% kept by them. So the charging company is either doing the same thing or has an arrangement with a Bank.
Today, Washington to Thirsk and back in a Nissan Leaf 30.
BP Pulse charger at Crathorn hall hotel, so little used it was covered in cobwebs. Yet again it was not showing on the app but this time (unlike some others) at least had the charger ID displayed. It worked! Yes, exclamation marks and and praise be to god!
Get to Thirsk (where you need detective skills to get the charger ID) and there's a hybrid parked at the only charger and despite me not being in a hurry, he clearly wasn't either as he was still blocking the charger an hour later.
So, I'll have to get back without charging at Thirsk but no issue, back to the hotel!
So I get the hotel, have to enter the charger number because it's not on the app and I get a demand to hand over more money. After handing over the cash the damned charger decides not to work and tells me it's my fault as it was a USER ENDED TRANSACTION!!!
I then creep back to Washington being harassed by truck drivers and only just make it.
Fuck this, life is too short.
I’ve been hoping to get an EV for the last three years. That video is really put me off. I’m gonna show it to my wife and see what she thinks. I know that probably wasn’t your intention, but I’m disabled and my wife is too. If we are stranded it could really be a problem. Obviously because of a disability as we used to planning, but we don’t have the time to learn by our mistakes. I think perhaps will have to give it another three years.
@ EVM always watch your videos great stuff, now my EV is on order (from today 12 weeks) could you do a update on how to calculate your charges for your EV on public charging sites to get a rough cost of payment, for a 66 kwatt battery … using Instavolt thanks keep the videos coming, you have made a convert, and new type of Home chargers with features using 7kw update would be good aswell… will use your referral for Octpus Go, when EDF sort out the Adminstration of GNE!!
Not that I've so far ever had need to use an Ionity charger, but HOLY CRAP… a £67 pre-authorisation…????
So, basically, they're saying that potentially everyone who is considering defrauding Ionity are running 100kWh battery EVs…!!!
It's all them there dodgy Merc EQS owners, is it then, eh…?? :-0
Just looked at Zap Map and realised that anything in blue is a waste of time. Imagine a petrol station where you had to wait for one hour and were then allowed one gallon of petrol. That's what you get at the laughingly named "fast" chargers.
The only reason that petrol is more expensive is the tax . At 130p petrol this breaks down to 50.3p (4.7p/mile) for fuel, 58p (5.3p/mile) for road tax and 21.7p (2.0p/mile) for VAT. Wonder when government introduce a 5p/mile or more road charge as their revenue dwindles. The relative costs won't look so good unless you charge at home at night on a cheap tariff and are only paying VAT at 5%. I'll make hay though ☀️
A recent example of the poor charger network: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/touring-electric-coach-stranded-eden-5524525#source=push.
Simply hilarious!
Fortunately the grid-serve takeover of Ecotricity will improve things.
I've not made many long journeys but I always ensure I have three charging options, just so I don't get stranded.
I once tried to call BP polar/pulse about a broken charger, made three calls each passing over half an hour before failed. A few days later I reported the broken charger using Twitter and they fixed or three weeks later.
Ecotricity offices are only powered by solar, with no battery, so when the sun sets the office turns off!