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I've now tried 10 Gridserve sites and not had one successful charge. Normally recognises it's connected to the car but then sits there for a few minutes telling me it's starting up but never does. Tried there old and new hardware and it just doesn't seem to like me so for now I avoid Gridserve sites

Apologies I missed that bit out. I just used A Better Route Planner, great for planning the stops but has quite a few shortfalls as a satnav when you’re not on motorways and it really suffered in Madrid as it couldn’t cope with the multiple splits in off ramps.

Out of all the networks I preferred Wenea as they were the most trouble free and the app works well, I did use Acciona as they were the chargers in Chapinaria where my partners mother lives and they were OK. Enel were quite good too, I used a couple of them.

Well after a 3500 journey, in which the car behaved impeccably on the whole, I thought I'd note down a few things I found. So lets start with the car, as I said on the whole it was very well behaved with a couple of minor exceptions. ACC doesn't like overtaking lorries and I had many occasions...

i think you need to put them down to a mixture of teething problems and human error. OK so I’ve only had my Trophy for 4 weeks but have already clocked up 1500 miles, 560 of them today, with another 800 to go in the next couple of days. I also have to solely rely on Public Charging as I have...

I have and have been relying on it for the last 5 years when I didn't bother with having a car, for trips where I needed one I used to use zipcar or enterprise car club but those have now been replaced by the MG. At the moment the car only gets used once during the week for the shop and weekends...

for journeys around my area I get 4.7 - 4.8 but then again nearly every road is 20mph but you are lucky if you get above 15mph just down to the sheer volume of traffic. On motorways journeys I'm getting 3.4 - 3.6 depending on how heavy footed I feel

My partners nephew is currently at college in Madrid studying to become an EV technician/mechanic. He's already been told that he is allowed no where near the car when we go down in a couple of weeks 😁

Just seen this post on twitter

It's all about balance at the end of the day. Most of the EV owners in my area don't have access to home charging so LBHF have been very considerate in their approach to public charging to give a good spread of fast, medium and slow charging options and the providers have also been accommodating...

It's funny that Hammersmith & Fulham are so ahead of the game with public chargers, nearly 3000 now, but I guess it's because they went out and did it on their own and did the deals with the suppliers. If anyone is interested in the process, on a high level, here's a link to one of the...

All Booths had to do is give the charger company a x years licence to use the space for the 4 bays. The charger company normally pays for all of the install, planning, wiring upgrade costs etc. Booths probably get a small % cut of the income.

Sounds like a job for a couple of container batteries to run them until they can get the network updated

Trouble is most councils are unaware that it won't cost them anything to get chargers installed apart from a little time and too many councillors are afraid of losing their seats because the anti EV lobby has a very loud voice and they don't understand just how much support for them there is

Nope mine was Keswick, a town of 5,500 people plus however many in the summer and they have 4.5 public chargers. According to the chap I was talking to it can get ugly around the chargers in the summer

My other half is adamant that she just has to swear at it in Spanish and it works as she didn't see me clicking the unlock button on the screen :)

My first 24 hrs were quite funny. Picked mine up from Preston and en route I'd planned to charge at an E.On charger very close to the dealership as a 'just in case' but as it turned out they had charged to 90% so set off for the lakes. Drove quite a few miles first and second day and was down...

At the Ionity, Instavolt and the free charger at the hotel I stayed in I just drove up got out, leaving the door open, swiped my card, plugged in and off it went. Then I shut the door locked up went and got a coffee. When I got back I unlocked opened the door and sat in the drivers seat fiddling...

That will be phase 2. There were issues with panel supplies, like most tech over the past 3 years, when they built it.

There are already hubs like this springing up around the country and I think it will come eventually as less reliance is placed on ICE. EV's only account for 1 in every 46 cars at the moment. What makes the Fulham one special is the actually ripped out an ICE filling station to install it...