Looks like Reading West is up and running as of today.
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Wiki UK and Ireland Supercharger Site News
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Open to non-Teslas and cheaper than the Gridserve ones opposite.
On the App nowcurrently at Reading West and all superchargers are not working. V4 screens helpfully tell you that! Sadly using the gridserves at nearly double the price and half the speed
I don't blame them, at least 10p different from the chargers opposite. Gridserve aren't even the worst offender at keeping Putin's winter pricing in the summer.
There needs to be a price cap for public charging, these network have demonstrated they can't be left to self regulate. Money grabbers just like oil companies.
The costs of increases will be instant, the savings of reductions will be slow to be passed on as per normal so they can rake it in.
There should be a cap simple as, if we want all this net-zero and bigger uptake of electric vehicles you are not going to get that by making it nearly the same price as petrol per mile!
There should be a cap simple as, if we want all this net-zero and bigger uptake of electric vehicles you are not going to get that by making it nearly the same price as petrol per mile!
Jason71
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I am sure there is a lot to say about this, personally I would weigh in about how crazy it is that I can charge at home for 7.5p per kwh but at a public charger you pay at least 5 times that and more than 7.5p per kwh in VAT alone.
But I am not going to because this is the supercharger site news thread so this is not the right place for that discussion.
But how much if that is from charging and how much is from their other business such as renewable energy generation and grid balancing (via batteries) which have been rather profitable over the last year?
The likes of instavolt and Osprey have historically lost a lot of money while they build new sites.
to be devils advocate... day rate you have is 30 p not 7.5... and at SC you charge times faster ;/
That's not really how company accounts work, the capital cost of building a new site creates an asset for which you account an amount of depreciation each year. It's obvious that building something new will take years to recover it's costs, and you have created some kind of debt from making that investment, but you can still be profitable while the depreciation + finance costs are lower than the revenue generated.
It is reasonable to suggest that if introducing a new concept that you will still make a loss while you are waiting for demand to increase to the point that you are making a return, This isn't the case for Gridserve (£5M net profit) or Instavolt (£5.7M) last year.
Next V4 Supercharger looking like it will be Trentham near Stoke-On-Trent. It will be interesting to see if only the V4s are open to all EVs or if the V3s will be opened as well
Fleet South is open. Just been informed from HQ.
cezdoc
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Just checked the date and pinched myself. It's not April 1st and I appear to be awake.
Finally we have the closing chapter of a long saga. Great news.
With Fleet South open I'll have to search for a new purpose in life
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