Big things in the North of Scotland

Sounds like they're dumping ChargePlace Scotland then. Considering how the maintenance has been, it may not be a bad thing.
 
Rolfe said:
Sounds like they're dumping ChargePlace Scotland then. Considering how the maintenance has been, it may not be a bad thing.
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Can't say I've had problems with CPS's maintainance. OTOH, the CPS smartphone app, which used to be OK, was changed 1-2 years ago and is now the absolute worst piece of software I have ever used for any purpose whatsoever. By a country mile...
 
Rolfe said:
Sounds like they're dumping ChargePlace Scotland then. Considering how the maintenance has been, it may not be a bad thing.
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Servicing has nothing to do with Chargeplace Scotland, that's down to the owners of the charge point/s.

That said, with the advent of contactless everywhere, CPS as the main/sole network is nearing end of life anyway. It was fantastic for Scotland in the early rfid only days and made it so much easier for drivers than South of the border. I think CPS will go on but maybe change name or merge with some other network.
 
I'm feeling cross because our village charger has been out of service for literally months. People are trailing charging leads across the pavement. I've phoned them up about it, but only get empty promises.
 
A 20 year contract? That's err, a very long time to commit to anything, let alone to one organisation.
Also: "Once all chargers are in place, the Highland Council area will have 111 7kW AC Fast chargers, three 11kW AC Fast units, 39 22kW AC Fast ones, 74 50kW DC rapid chargers, and 44 DC rapid units with charge rates greater than 50kW. " - that doesn't seem in step with the increasing capacity in EV's. 7kW chargers are hardly state-of-the-art anymore. It's not like the Highlands isn't covered by generation capacity. While it's good to see more chargers, isn't this likely to be a bit of a missed (or misguided) opportunity?
 
I used CPS chargers in Inverness (the Tesla ones were full/broken) and South Beach car park in Stornoway, in the past week ... both worked perfectly fine, using the CPS RFID card to initiate charging.

They're only 50kW units, but as I have an SE SR then that doesn't really matter so much.
 
AndrewS said:
A 20 year contract? That's err, a very long time to commit to anything, let alone to one organisation.
Also: "Once all chargers are in place, the Highland Council area will have 111 7kW AC Fast chargers, three 11kW AC Fast units, 39 22kW AC Fast ones, 74 50kW DC rapid chargers, and 44 DC rapid units with charge rates greater than 50kW. " - that doesn't seem in step with the increasing capacity in EV's. 7kW chargers are hardly state-of-the-art anymore. It's not like the Highlands isn't covered by generation capacity. While it's good to see more chargers, isn't this likely to be a bit of a missed (or misguided) opportunity?
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7kw chargers have their place. Anywhere that folk want to rock up and leave the car for a couple of hours, shopping or sight seeing, any activity that would take them past the time limit on a rapid. There's one in the Old Man of Storr car park for anyone who wants to go climb a mountain for example.

You're right about that 20 year contract though, sounds not right to me for many reasons.
 

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