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Because they are reacting to the actual capability of the assets that are installed. Those cut-outs (and supply cables) were only ever rated for 100A under winter conditions and/or intermittent load. Since there's now significant risk of those conditions being broken, they would rather have an...

Bar Hill service centre/supercharger. With a few pieces of new steel lying around, we can just about declare that construction has started. Certainly the de-construction of the previous buildings is completed (if you want to see what it was like before, here's a Goole Streetview link: Google...

I fear you may be right - looking at the app over the past few hours, it's always saying "0 of 16 available" for Thurrock, but without the "busy site" or "xxx minutes wait time" shown against others where all the stalls are genuinely in use. Thetford (which is also known to be closed for...

Yes, the original 24-stall plan was clearly Tesla + Gridserve; it looks very much like this new reduced plan is Gridserve only. Hard to know from the outside whether it's funding or power availability that's reduced the ambition - the change to the McD plans is clearly a cheaper option, and...

OK, thanks. Those 6 new are in the location taken by 2 on the original plan plus space freed up by the fact the original plan had to assume the carpark entry/exit were to be moved for the proposed drive-through building on the left, now cancelled). The new plan however does mean that some of...

The new one (24/00322) says in the planning statement document: Externally, the Site is served by a picnic area and benches to the west, and car park to the south which provides 158 spaces, including 24 electrical charging vehicle points and references the older 20/03020. It doesn't mention...

This application is a bit odd. It shows 6 superchargers (and 2 cabinets) under "existing plan", then 10 more (total 16, 4 cabinets) under "proposed". But AFAIK there aren't any there at the moment, and if you go looking in the planning history for the site there's no previous Tesla...

Something must be lost in translation there. Zappi has integral PME fault protection, and even if you were using one that didn't, you would normally fit the PME fault protection nearby rather than back at the incoming supply. So I think you mean something other than PME here. You could. This...

Certainly having incomplete or out-of-date info can be much worse than useless. I recently parked/charged at a Source London point in Barnet tube station carpark. There was no signage, and Source London' website is useless - it says that most of their locations parking is included, but at...

Bar Hill (Cambridge) hasn't appeared as a "permit" site on Supercharge.info, despite being discussed here and planning permission granted July 2023. However, it won't be opening any time soon: the permission is for demolish and rebuild as a Service Centre, and I dropped by last week to check...

Also interesting among those documents is this one: https://www.nationalgrid.co.uk/downloads-view-reciteme/231505 containing a ranking of various service areas in terms of the ease of installing one of these large connections. Don't expect much charging expansion at Severn View services in the...

Not impossible that Welcome Break/Applegreen is another customer of Tesla's new charging hardware supply business.

I'm pretty sure that what I said (units of 25%) is still true, as it's a fundamental hardware feature. How those units are shared between the two stalls is a software matter and has changed over time. Taking away the first-car-priority potentially changes the probability of the various...

Recent V3 cabinets have 385kVA@480V input (for 4 stalls) compared to V2 with 160kVA@480V so V3 about 20% more input per stall. Possibly V3 are slightly more efficient, but there's only room for that to be a couple of percentage points of difference. More significant is the sharing, where V2...

Compared to a V2 site, it should do. So if you were sitting there drawing your 85kW max, on V2 you would be reducing whoever is on the adjacent stall down to 35kW. Or conversely, if a Tesla got there first you would only get 35kW, well below your capability even if tapered down from the max...