Atleast they were queuing…not circling around to grab a space skipping the queue as fellow Tesla owners do here. May be this new norm will force Tesla’s hands!
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[uk] Public charging - the media may have a point
- Thread starter Erewegoagain
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100% agree with you. If the lamp post chargers were in every town the problem would be cut in half.
since SCs in those places (like everywhere else) are DC what stops installing rather 8 x 150 kw - the 4 x 150 + 27 x 22 kw DC? or 12 50 kw? You would use same power supply capacity just more charging options...
add bunch of AC chargers and you are fine
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interbear
Active Member
Easy. Teslas get a spot in the charger queue based on arrival time. Non Tesla's are automatically dropped to the back of the queue if any Tesla is waiting for a charge. Even if the Tesla arrives after them. Seems fair to me
Jason71
Well-Known Member
The sad fact is at the moment you have to plan VERY carefully and have a contingency plan to do long journeys in most EV's. especially if you are trying to do 270 miles in an i3 like s recent story in the press of someone who took 12 hours allegedly to do the journey.
But it started me thinking, unfortunate as this reality is, when are the majority going to catch on and stop getting caught out like this so these stories disappear?
Then I discovered that 800,000 people a year in the UK manage to run out of petrol and I realised, never.
But it started me thinking, unfortunate as this reality is, when are the majority going to catch on and stop getting caught out like this so these stories disappear?
Then I discovered that 800,000 people a year in the UK manage to run out of petrol and I realised, never.
Although some chargers are a bit of a pain from the viewpoint of an EV owner and we do have to plan routes because rarely do you fall upon a charger like you do a filling station with an ICE, its good if the public refrain from swapping to an EV and carry on believing all the scare stories out there about spontaneous combustion, battery's dead in 4 years, piss poor range, no chargers etc and refrain from going the EV route with their next car, because it will keep the cost down for those with one now.
Its only because so many have already moved to EV that road Tax will apply from 2025, The financial assistance towards a home charger being abolished, the free supercharger miles etc. If ICE owners move to EV in significant numbers then the loss of the fuel duty plus the VAT on fuel duty will force the government to introduce higher and new taxes to recover their losses - and you just know that overnight domestic specific EV charger rates will probably disappear as will the 5% vat on domestic electricity - The government are never going to just ignore those losses.
Therefore we should agree with the naysayers and doubters, tell them EVs are a bit crap.
Its only because so many have already moved to EV that road Tax will apply from 2025, The financial assistance towards a home charger being abolished, the free supercharger miles etc. If ICE owners move to EV in significant numbers then the loss of the fuel duty plus the VAT on fuel duty will force the government to introduce higher and new taxes to recover their losses - and you just know that overnight domestic specific EV charger rates will probably disappear as will the 5% vat on domestic electricity - The government are never going to just ignore those losses.
Therefore we should agree with the naysayers and doubters, tell them EVs are a bit crap.
Lord Farquad
2022 MYLR W/B/20s/Tow bar. Previously 2021 M3SR+
I have adopted this philosophy
I love my EV and my wife’s Mini EV too. But all these other people buying them is only going the way you suggest.
Whenever someone sends me some rubbish news story about Tesla death traps etc I just nod politely and agree with them, safe in the knowledge I’m happy with my lot in life.
