The opposite is also evident where you will see no advertising of ev charge points but there are chargers available. They always have the knife & fork sign and the petrol pump sign but nothing for EV charging. The motorway services really need to catch up and provide multiple rapid EV charging at every services .
Well if you link in to ZAP MAP using apple car play of Android auto etc, you can have all of that information, which ones are broken, which ones are free etc along with the cost per kWh.In fact what would be nice would be real time led signage which told you how many charge points were available. This is obviously fantasy.
It would be of use for sure, it would be much better if it was integrated into vehicle technology though so that real time calculations can be done in conjunction with GPS etc. Pretty much what Tesla have done in USA.
Come on, now your asking too much,
Nobody would ever use the charger points then!!
You mean they have a choice? If youre down at 2% and the charger is there with £1.50 kWh whatcha going to do?Nobody would ever use the charger points then!!
When I was working in USA I had travel from New York to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania every week, a nice 400 mile journey and having never been in an electric car they gave me a Tesla Model X. The destination was keyed in to the sat nav, my boss just let the do it all. We set off, on the freeway it was autodriving and kept pinging up about charging along the route. I was ready for a stop so accepted a charger it offered it not only drove me off the freeway but it reserved the charger and drove straight to it. I plugged in and went for a coffee. It messaged me when I had enough charge to reach my destination and again to say it was full. The charging was free too. For 6 months I was working there and was totally sold on electric cars, I would have loved a model X but it's well out of my price range. It was a demonstration of just how good EV's in general can be if we do the joined up thinking on the infrastructure instead of everyone doing there own thing.
Joined up thinking and UK government. I see an obvious problem !
To be honest, joined up thinking and ANY government can be an issue. My experience in USA was absolutely down to Elon Musk who has been a one man crusade in EV development.
Now that is a fantastic idea!In fact what would be nice would be real time led signage which told you how many charge points were available. This is obviously fantasy.
