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#ClimateDiary Ok this may come across as privileged conplaining - i mean, i have a feeling it does, whixh is kind of indicative in itself, because really it shouldn’t:

we just got our first #EV and whilst waiting to have our own charger installed (which is expensixe and you need to have off-road parking space), we are using public charging points and: the infrastructure here in the UK is crap! It’s either very very slow (like these ones in a local car park (also flooded, inside, today) 1/3

Photo of a charging space in a local car park - the apace flooded, indoors.
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Pauline von Hellermann
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#ClimateDiary #EV 2/3 like 36 hours for a 80% charge (2kw/h); or it’s extremely expensive. As in 2x more expensive than petrol.

I am not surprised that the take up has been so much slower than was hoped. The whole “it’s only for rich people” critique is very valid: it only makes any kind of economic sense if you can charge at home, which exlcudes many. It’s really crap and depressing in itself.

Now bracing myself for no doubt many responses pointing out that #EVs are not the solution.

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David Njoku
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I'm getting my first EV in a few weeks. Didn't realise the slow chargers are that slow or that rapid chargers are that expensive!
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Pauline von Hellermann
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@davidnjoku i know! I didn’t realise either. It may be that things are particularly bad here in (provincial) Eastbourne. But it’s definitely worth checking out your local infrastructure and what it’s like now. For example, our local Waitrose used to have free charging, now it’s the most expensive (this is the 4x more expensive model). Hope provisions are better where you live. But i have a feeling a lot of companies are extorting as much possible and it’s 😡. It should be cheap!
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David Njoku
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The big Sainsbury's just installed lots of rapid chargers. Back in the day it used to be a marketing ploy to get you to shop with them instead of Tesco, and so it used to be close to free. Now it's really expensive.

I'm hoping the free-ish council run charger down by the local shops is fast enough to give me a fair charge in a few hours.

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Leszek Ciesielski
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@davidnjoku Hmm, the only way I'd get a 36 h charge time is by using the home socket cable, for a 230V socket. Which I do carry, for emergencies... But no fixed wall charger should be that slow! Even with a slow charger, you should expect to be done in 5-8 hours. It really sounds like something is broken with that one (might not be a transient fault, it might be installed wrongly/ poorly planned).
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🌴 Seph 💭 👾
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@Pauline von Hellermann Sounds like a level one charger, those are always slow, and only worth using in a pinch. Level 3/fast charging is fast, but often expensive and hard on your battery, especially in old electric cars.
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