It seems to me that EVs roughly fall into two camps (maybe a bit oversimplistic, but bear with me) - larger cars with big batteries that can replace a family's main car; and smaller, city cars with smaller batteries that are usually a second car and mostly do shorter journeys.
Now, in the first category we have Tesla, but also Jaguar with the iPace, Polestar, Audi, Mercedes and such like. These cars need rapid DC charging networks to make them viable. The city cars can probably survive with home charging and slower supermarket car park options.
With Ionity's announcement this week, it seems that the "minor" brands with expensive big battery cars like Jaguar, Polestar and such like are getting frozen out. I wouldn't want to be owning an iPace now, facing either pathetically slow and unreliable charging with Polar etc, or else paying £50 to charge to 200 miles with Ionity.
Unless Shell or such like get their networks installed pretty quickly, I can see Jaguar etc struggling to sell their EVs.
Now, in the first category we have Tesla, but also Jaguar with the iPace, Polestar, Audi, Mercedes and such like. These cars need rapid DC charging networks to make them viable. The city cars can probably survive with home charging and slower supermarket car park options.
With Ionity's announcement this week, it seems that the "minor" brands with expensive big battery cars like Jaguar, Polestar and such like are getting frozen out. I wouldn't want to be owning an iPace now, facing either pathetically slow and unreliable charging with Polar etc, or else paying £50 to charge to 200 miles with Ionity.
Unless Shell or such like get their networks installed pretty quickly, I can see Jaguar etc struggling to sell their EVs.