@techmaven that's my view too.
Without a "Jaguar Supercharger" network, I think in part they are also treading fairly lightly into the EV arena with view that by the time the car is here it will launch under much better public infrastructure conditions.
One interesting recent development from my perspective is that UK Government is passing a law that gas stations must provide EV charging. It's unclear yet if this is CCS, or they will do something stupid like allow them to put in 7kW A/C ones.
Queen’s Speech backs electric and hydrogen vehicles
Given the smaller distances here it really should cover off a lot of the "charging anxiety". Just the presence of the chargers is likely to have a psychological effect even if they are not particularly fast or conveniently located.
Another really interesting thing is happening here. A huge swathe of previously "coming soon" Supercharger sites, some of which we've been putting pressure on Tesla UK for years, are all of a sudden coming on stream right across the UK. I can't see it being Model 3 related as we are likely at the back of that queue, so such early infrastructure spend seems really odd.
Like the rest of the EU (we haven't officially left quite yet) there is a looming deadline that would force Tesla to also put in CCS to any new sites, so it might be that?
Maybe Tesla UK are a bit spooked by the I Pace as it's very likely to come here first. While it wouldn't necessarily work stateside due to the charging issues, if it's cheaper than an S100D (likely) for the UK market it would be a very tempting alternative. Tesla reinforcing their major benefit (the Supercharger network) may be a preemptive measure. It will be really interesting to watch the UK market post the Frankfurt motor show when we should start seeing firm prices.
Without a "Jaguar Supercharger" network, I think in part they are also treading fairly lightly into the EV arena with view that by the time the car is here it will launch under much better public infrastructure conditions.
One interesting recent development from my perspective is that UK Government is passing a law that gas stations must provide EV charging. It's unclear yet if this is CCS, or they will do something stupid like allow them to put in 7kW A/C ones.
Queen’s Speech backs electric and hydrogen vehicles
Given the smaller distances here it really should cover off a lot of the "charging anxiety". Just the presence of the chargers is likely to have a psychological effect even if they are not particularly fast or conveniently located.
Another really interesting thing is happening here. A huge swathe of previously "coming soon" Supercharger sites, some of which we've been putting pressure on Tesla UK for years, are all of a sudden coming on stream right across the UK. I can't see it being Model 3 related as we are likely at the back of that queue, so such early infrastructure spend seems really odd.
Like the rest of the EU (we haven't officially left quite yet) there is a looming deadline that would force Tesla to also put in CCS to any new sites, so it might be that?
Maybe Tesla UK are a bit spooked by the I Pace as it's very likely to come here first. While it wouldn't necessarily work stateside due to the charging issues, if it's cheaper than an S100D (likely) for the UK market it would be a very tempting alternative. Tesla reinforcing their major benefit (the Supercharger network) may be a preemptive measure. It will be really interesting to watch the UK market post the Frankfurt motor show when we should start seeing firm prices.
