Coming up to a year with my M3 and it's safe to say I'll never go back to ICE!
My experience is mostly positive, but what has let the whole EV thing down, is public (none Tesla) chargers. From broken hardware, ICEing, extortionate fees, slow charging etc.. it makes you grateful for the supercharger network. I really don't know if I'd stick to an EV if I had to rely on the current public network.
Which brings me to my question - Should there be (is there?) a body like OFWAT but for public networks?
Chargers in our area are using gov grants but the rollout has been terrible and the reliability has been scary.
A perfect example - they took 5 days to mark a charger as broken after a couple of phone calls - imagine you were down to your last mile arriving at the charger to discover it was broken and had been for some time. (I appreciate the 'don't let it get to that stage' but I'm sure we've all made mistakes and shouldn't be penalised for a shoddy network that we would expect to be online if the map says it is!).
If these networks were held to account by a body with some tooth, do you think the network as a whole would benefit?
My experience is mostly positive, but what has let the whole EV thing down, is public (none Tesla) chargers. From broken hardware, ICEing, extortionate fees, slow charging etc.. it makes you grateful for the supercharger network. I really don't know if I'd stick to an EV if I had to rely on the current public network.
Which brings me to my question - Should there be (is there?) a body like OFWAT but for public networks?
Chargers in our area are using gov grants but the rollout has been terrible and the reliability has been scary.
A perfect example - they took 5 days to mark a charger as broken after a couple of phone calls - imagine you were down to your last mile arriving at the charger to discover it was broken and had been for some time. (I appreciate the 'don't let it get to that stage' but I'm sure we've all made mistakes and shouldn't be penalised for a shoddy network that we would expect to be online if the map says it is!).
If these networks were held to account by a body with some tooth, do you think the network as a whole would benefit?