Post by Pauline von Hellermann

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#ClimateDiary #EV 2/3 like 36 hours for a 80% charge; or it’s extremely, extremely expensive. As in 4x more expensive than petrol.

I am not surprised that the take up has been so much slower than was hoped. The whole “it’s only for rich people” critique is very valid: it only makes any kind of economic sense if you can charge at home, which exlcudes many. It’s really crap and depressing in itself.

Now bracing myself for no doubt many responses pointing out that #EVs are not the solution.

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@pvonhellermannn I'm getting my first EV in a few weeks. Didn't realise the slow chargers are that slow or that rapid chargers are that expensive!

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@davidnjoku i know! I didn’t realise either. It may be that things are particularly bad here in (provincial) Eastbourne. But it’s definitely worth checking out your local infrastructure and what it’s like now. For example, our local Waitrose used to have free charging, now it’s the most expensive (this is the 4x more expensive model). Hope provisions are better where you live. But i have a feeling a lot of companies are extorting as much possible and it’s 😡. It should be cheap!

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@pvonhellermannn The big Sainsbury's just installed lots of rapid chargers. Back in the day it used to be a marketing ploy to get you to shop with them instead of Tesco, and so it used to be close to free. Now it's really expensive.

I'm hoping the free-ish council run charger down by the local shops is fast enough to give me a fair charge in a few hours.

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@davidnjoku @pvonhellermannn Hmm, the only way I'd get a 36 h charge time is by using the home socket cable, for a 230V socket. Which I do carry, for emergencies... But no fixed wall charger should be that slow! Even with a slow charger, you should expect to be done in 5-8 hours. It really sounds like something is broken with that one (might not be a transient fault, it might be installed wrongly/ poorly planned).