Construction of gridserve in Stevenage has begun. Plans show 8x Tesla chargers as well as least 26 gridserve chsrgers
Planned opening late '24
Planned opening late '24
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Sean.
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Like the layouts and facilities (at the Electric Forecourts only). Dislike the ABB chargers and Gridserve prices more generally.
Jason71
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Banbury is currently showing a spanner icon but it also shows 9 of 12 available so does that mean that upto 3 of the 12 are broken ( some could be in use)
It's just it seems odd to even bother showing a spanner if most of the chargers are still available.
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I see now it is listing 8 stalls as out of order
It's just it seems odd to even bother showing a spanner if most of the chargers are still available.
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I see now it is listing 8 stalls as out of order
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cezdoc
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A post on another forum alerted me that the Stevenage plans have been revised to include only 4x supercharger stalls (which also seems to be the case at Gatwick). Still good to see Gridserve making progress. (Planning link is on the thread wikipost - search for Stevenage in the post; the revised plan ref is 23/00783/NMA).
cezdoc
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Pease Pottage reportedly went live last night and is showing in the app:
I think the spanner is shown when part/all of a site will be closed for maintenance within next few hours.
Gridserve and the rest. Instavolt and BP Pulse already have more rapids than Tesla. MFG and Osprey also pushing hard. There are a good half a dozen or more networks aiming to be the biggest.
Dropping the ball? 17 new sites and 5 expansions with 254 stalls this year (assuming my adding up is right) and a host of other sites ready or thereabouts with up to 200 stalls. Theoretically knocking on 500 stalls by the end of the year but that is subject to UK power networks doing their bit which might be a big ask but ”dropping the ball” - I don’t think so.
Sean.
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Dropping the ball is what Gridserve did at their expansion in Exeter. Tesla expansion to 32 bays was a doddle by comparison.
Sean.
Active Member
Like with like though…
- a ton of the Osprey network is still at 75 kW charge points. There aren’t that many Kempower 150 & 300 kW enabled sites.
- Instavolt outside of the pairs of rubbish 200A- limited BYD twins at McD and Costa have again a handful of ultrafast hubs > 6 charge points
MFG look good, nice charge points those with Alpitronic HYCs in play. Not the cheapest though.
Sean.
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Could still go V4 too. Several with oval bases have V4 pedestals installed, like Luton and Newmarket
This. I’d wager it’s V4 and will be an open to all site.
I was there earlier today and no sign of any tombstones yet.
Sean.
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Agree. I did a count up of UK sites currently in construction / being upgraded and 7 out of 8 will be V4 once they’re complete and energised. Bringing another 71 V4 stalls to the existing total of 34.
So fairly soon there will be 37 sites open to non-Tesla, with 402 stalls. Of these sites 10 will have v4 in place with 105 pedestals. Pretty good since the first in August.
It may be a planning or contractual requirement. If I was a local planning officer, I’d insist on it.
If they got government subsidies for the site, then they must to be open to all.
Sean.
Active Member
There is not. But ask then why would they install pedestals that have card readers and longer cables just for Tesla vehicles? V3 with no card reader and shorter cables are perfectly adequate just for Tesla vehicles.
V4 pedestals really are their open-to-all solution.
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