Everyone was awarded a small island in the Caribbean to compensate.
Here you go. Expectations being set.
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Clear as mud.
So many vested interests and guesswork.
I am releastic my cheap rate off peak leccy wonât be cheap forever!
Bloody hell, how about they stop subsidising the fossil fuel industry first?
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Fun and games trying to charge the car today.
BP Chargemaster has rebranded as BP Pulse, and fucked up my account in the process. I can charge, using their new app, but it takes a phone call to get the thing to release my cable after charging. Average hold time is currently about 20 minutes, so thatâs not good.
So today I went to the rapid charger in town, run by Electric Blue. Despite a call, that failed to work as well. Theyâre sending an engineer, but thatâs not much help to me.
Checked on Zapmap and the station was available. Went there and thereâs some cunty Range Rover parked there blocking the space, so thatâs out.
The car is now under 25% and Claire needs to make a journey this afternoon that needs just slightly more than that. She wonât be happy.
Hence I still drive a diseasel 
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Adam doesnât have a driveway, so him getting an EV was always going to be an âadventureâ. Pls no feed confirmation bias.
It does fit my concerns though. Yes, I have a driveway. Apart from that my nearest charging station is in a hotel car park 6 miles away. Then another 8 miles. Well, you get the picture.
With the current infrastructure, and the issues I listed up thread, I wouldnât feel confident just yet.
Yeah there are several options still available - I could drive it to Morrisons and rapid charge it there, or Claire could charge while at her destination in the car park or at the rapid charge at the Shell 500m away. But itâs nice to know when you set out that you can get back!
I understand that, but with a chicken and egg situation I decided that a positive action was the right choice. If you can charge at home then itâs hard to see how there would be much of a problem, and the cost and environmental saving are substantial.
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quite a few in Hatfield - weâve a few on campus that are probably not being used - visitors car park - Chragemaster
Thatâs the one that wonât release my cable without a 20 minute call!
Itâs like a gentrified mad max with milk floats
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Except when travelling beyond the range of the car.
Unless you were moonlighting for Hermes, itâs hard to see when this would even be a consideration.
If you are doing a road trip, then the local issues Adam described wouldnât be a problem.
They will still exist. If I need to charge at some stage of the journey, some arse is blocking the equipment, another out of service, App not working. Ultimately I canât walk down the road with a jerrycan.
Yes, itâs whataboutery, but it is a concern for me at least.
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You have to look at this a bit more flexibly. There can be issues with motorway service stations being busy, Indeed that was a concern when we were thinking about driving over Xmas. However, there are plenty of off-motorway rapid chargers. Iâm not suggesting to pop into IKEA to break a long journey, but there are pubs with rapid chargers, and supermarkets etc.
Iâm not saying itâs without issues, but having to do a bit of planning for those twice a year journeys doesnât seem too onerous really.
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The key points on major routes all tend to have working kit.
And they all have prohibitive over stay fees. And enough parking for other cars.
So the broke or occupied never really applies to your long distance options.
Yeah
The Audi Duo III hybrid based on the A4 I mentioned is discussed briefly below. It was too early and too expensive, Audi finally produced between 50 and 100 units as far as I can read back from various sources. I was mightily impressed by that car.