Urgh. The rise of #EV ‘s has surpassed the available infrastructure. At least at Thrumster on the Pacific Motorway, but not in the way you think. Over three sites there are no less than 17 chargers (all full) but the mobile signal is so poor that any that use an App instead of an rfid card are useless.
This we’ve had about an hours wait for a charger at the services.
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in reply to David de Groot • •@David de Groot if only there was a way to provide payment for energy using the same instruments that one already carries and can be used to pay for most goods!
but no, surely using cash or regular payment cards for electricity is waaay harder than doing so for fuel, and it could never work!
(to be fair, to accept payment cards they'd need a working phone/internet connection, but still!)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla well yes, but it’s only need terrestrial internet at the charger.
The app-driven payment thing is ridiculous.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to David de Groot • •@David de Groot I thought it could have been some place in the middle of nowhere where terrestrial internet is also problematic
but yeah, if that would be easily available
a) they have no excuse
b) and they could also provide a free wifi for the people who need to pay with an app!
c) have I mentioned that they have no excuse?
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla We were considering the chargers quite a lot yesterday, and then realised there's no standards when it comes to charge port location on cars either, which has a bit of a knock-on effect.
For instance, our car has the charge port near the drivers rear wheel. Since we drive on the left, the drivers side is on the right of the car (away from the curb). Telsas have their port on the passenger side at the very back corner. Therefore the Telsa supercharger network has chargers with very short cables since they were designed for Teslas. But the supercharger network is now almost entirely available for non-Tesla cars here. We can only sometimes use them, as the cable mostly doesn't reach around the car.
Petrol cars have pretty much standardised their fillers in one of two locations (left or right side), and thus petrol stations just work universally. I do wonder if we'll eventually see that in EVs too.
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