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I would hope my home charger would last a lot more than 5 years, bearing in mind it’s not really a charger as such, just a contactor. The charger (that doesn’t the AC/DC conversion) is in the car
It is though a mechanical part that many people use multiple times a day (unlike a socket in a house that you might plug into once) and it will wear.
And I figure in 5 yrs most might buy a new car, and buy then there might be a new plug type, or you might have a car supporting V2G/V2H necessitating a new
The machines are made by ABB and technically capable. Ionity aren’t the first as Fastned already use Plug & Charge for their high power units. It just depends on if they design it not to work for Tesla’s. Might be a convenient design or technical reason or don’t want to share their software implementation. I very much doubt they’ll exclude Tesla though- they’re very keen to promote the fact they’re an open network and they already have Tesla customers. The EU might also lean on them given the public funding they receive.
And free for a week: IONITY to provide free charging at new Glasgow site during COP26
Currently no other Ionity builds in progress in the UK. Sorry VAG customers. Probably waiting for HM Gov’s £500m rapid charging fund so it might be some time before we see some more.
Currently no other Ionity builds in progress in the UK. Sorry VAG customers. Probably waiting for HM Gov’s £500m rapid charging fund so it might be some time before we see some more.
The "advantage" of the absurdly high pricing of Ionity charging is that it automatically reduces pressure on their small number of stalls. Only people who really need rapid charging are going to use them. Making them free may be shooting themselves in the foot. A non EV owner seeing a stack of cars queuing to get a charge is just going to confirm their worst fears.
I've had the benefit of using them free in the past, usually Cambridge and Leeds services, according to an Engineer doing repairs, it's usually when 50% of the chargers fault it changes to free dispense.
Sean.
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Sean.
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Indeed. Lots announced in just in the last few days and weeks.
Gestation period is minimum 6 months and up to 16 months though. Could be a while. Neat how they can adapt their voltage to suit the car, so good for 400v architectures as well as 800v and beyond.
MrBadger
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Any new chargers good news but take the locations with a pinch of salt. The Frimley one is nowhere near Frimley. It looks to be at the old Polar site between M3 J4a and Fleet with nasty ANPR where you use to have to register.
Ionity to install 380 high speed chargers at all 33 Village Hotels sites across the UK
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Good news for me as there's a Village Hotel near my son's Student Hall in Swansea. With each of these being about 10 chargers it's a good number of new useful locations, although they are rather clustered rather than evenly spread across the country. Good news for the North with 12 sites from Chester/Liverpool/Manchester/Leeds/Hull.
IONITY on LinkedIn: #ionity #evcharging #emobility #partnership
We are very happy to announce that IONITY has joined forces with Village Hotels in Great Britain! Together, we´re taking electric vehicle charging to a whole…
www.linkedin.com
Good news for me as there's a Village Hotel near my son's Student Hall in Swansea. With each of these being about 10 chargers it's a good number of new useful locations, although they are rather clustered rather than evenly spread across the country. Good news for the North with 12 sites from Chester/Liverpool/Manchester/Leeds/Hull.
Jason71
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Given the prices of Ionity I think I would stick to the superchargers on the M4 personally.Ionity to install 380 high speed chargers at all 33 Village Hotels sites across the UK
IONITY on LinkedIn: #ionity #evcharging #emobility #partnership
We are very happy to announce that IONITY has joined forces with Village Hotels in Great Britain! Together, we´re taking electric vehicle charging to a whole…
Good news for me as there's a Village Hotel near my son's Student Hall in Swansea. With each of these being about 10 chargers it's a good number of new useful locations, although they are rather clustered rather than evenly spread across the country. Good news for the North with 12 sites from Chester/Liverpool/Manchester/Leeds/Hull.
At least that Village hotel carpark doesn't have ANPR cameras to deal with, or at least it did not when I was there last a couple of years ago, but I bet some of them do
What I want from Hotels is 7kw overnight chargers.
Ionity are no more than all the other public networks these days, often less if you use Electroverse or other aggregator.
Normally I would agree that having a rapid charger at a hotel is a waste compared to multiple 7kW chargers, I see this more as there being a ultra rapid charging hub in their carpark. With 10+ chargers a resident is likely to get on a charger, and after 30 mins or whatever move to a normal space, Non residents will be coming and going.. SuperChrgers are often in hotel car parks, same thing.
Sean.
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Carlisle, 12 x 350 kW (under “construction” for 414 days) opened last week.
Newcastle, 6 x 350 kW opened today. A more reasonable 270 days in construction.
Newcastle, 6 x 350 kW opened today. A more reasonable 270 days in construction.
Sean.
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I pay a flat 30p a unit at Ionity in the Porker. It’s not so bad. Plug & Charge too.
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