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    North Wales / A55 / Conway Charging

    Looks like Instavolt have opened some new chargers at a holiday park just outside Conwy - a very good alternative to the temperamental PodPoint unit at Lidl
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    Rapid Charge Network cost comparison

    Article showing prices of each network and now they’ve varied over the past 6+ months. Just for info. https://voltonomics.com/2022/05/24/36-increase-in-ev-rapid-charging-prices-in-just-8-months/
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    Tesla Supercharger Sites for 3rd parties

    https://engage.tesla.com/articles/1197-tesla-opens-15-112-uk-supercharger-sites-3rd-parties
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    MGF

    Not EV related and possibly not something that everyone cares about, but just saw a lovely MGF on my favourite YouTube channel. Posting a it’s (very vaguely) brand related There was also a MG-X Power SVR 5.0 previously and a barn find MG Midget
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    Retail Park Charging

    I visited Glasgow Fort today, just off the M8 near Glasgow (it’s not very imaginatively named!!) Anyway, there are the usually variety of retail stores, places to eat, a gym and a cinema. And out of the 2,500 car parking spaces there are four EV charging bays. And these aren’t your common or...
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    Lidl Customers Only

    Seems that people are being fined for using PodPoint chargers at Lidl if deemed not to be customers - including using units when store is closed
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    ChargePlace Scotland - Glasgow

    It’s been rumoured for a while - but pricing appears to be happening
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    The future of EVs?

    This is the market sector I think will be fastest growing for EVs - the (hopefully) sub-£13k city car. Now, where’s the MG1 to compete?
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    VW ID.3 - 8% Battery Capacity Degradation after 14 months

    saw this and thought battery degradation was interesting irrespective of the brand https://insideevs.com/news/548404/volkswagen-confirms-8percent-degradation-id3/amp/
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    Podpoint releasing

    Just popped my MG5 on a free Podpoint 7kW at Tesco - activated via the app and all was good. Came back 30 minutes later and tried to release via app - but it didn’t say this was in use and didn’t see anyway to stop Anyway, called support and they suggested locking and unlocking the car between...
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    Scotland - North & South Lanarkshire Park & Ride

    Whilst coming back from supermarket this morning, I spotted the new Park & Ride at Cambuslang. There was a Tesla on one of the two 50kW CCS units but the other four 22kW Type 2 (2 connections on each?) were free. A quick Google showed a recent large investment throughout Lanarkshire Anyone...
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    Traffic Jams and Battery

    This is likely something obvious, but coming from an ICE car, where the engine spins and charges the 12V battery as well as turning the aircon, etc - what happens to an EV when I stop in traffic jam and use aircon? Does the main high voltage battery keep charging the 12V and run all the...
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