It is a comparative pain though, if you live in a flat above ground level, and have to park in a separate area. Do you have any guidance on setting up a multiple communal charging point through your block's management company?
I charged my 21' bolt EV exclusively at an Electrify America station for over a year, before I moved into a house with a garage and got my 22' EUV. Totally fine. Would charge it up once every couple weeks. Took about an hour or so.
You forgot to mention the option of charging while at work. And some work places provide free charging. Having said that, make sure you follow work guidelines on charging especially when there are many wanting or need to charge their cars to get home.
I'm definitely an advocate for electric cars, (would love one but with the small mileage I do too expensive) but convincing the average driver that they will have to walk 10 mins to pick up their car everyday when they could park an ice car outside is a non starter. The average person will always go for convenience first. Just look at how people accepted low quality MP3 music over higher quality cds as an example.
I think the ultimate solution is for charging at work. If we are all driving to work, then we should be encouraging our employers to invest in chargers in the car park. Many companies offer a range of benefits to attract employees, this could be one of them. I'm sure that the accountants could find a way of making a solar install on the roof and chargers in the car park a tax write off for the business, so win-win for all concerned.
10:02 That illustration of a VW ID.4 with a charge port under the front VW badge kkkkkkkkkk. Wait. Why didn't VW put the charge port there anyway? I prefer charge ports at the front where I just drive into a bay and plug in. No stretching of cables and scratching your paint while trying to reach a port on the front fender (I'm looking at you Taycan and you Audi etron)
Can you send this to Marvin Rees – Mayor of Bristol. Desperately poor EV street network & it’s hampering take up in city centre residential areas. I would like to go electric but there’s nothing.
these slow overnight chargers would be good if they aren't so expensive, 49p to 69p/kWh. similar to petrol px now. unless you often have to drive into central London and want to avoid congestion charge, then it's better to stick with gas car for now until more MG4 (px wise) comes along.
I'd stick with my local Tesla superchargers costing only 30p/kWh thank you very much. It doesn't annoy me that much when the phantom drain goes up in winter (typical loss is around 3-4% per week).
my experience with local supermarket free chargers weren't good, either iced, or out of order, or too many ev waiting… it felt like it's always a bit of a gamble unfortunately.
It’s true that things are changing. I live in a town of around 30,000 people. The biggest issue here is that the older part of the town that I live in having a driveway is impossible for most people and due to the way the houses are laid out you can’t run a cable neither.
The town has two major supermarkets and neither offer charging, neither do Aldi or Lidl not even the M&S food store does. Most of the chargers in the town are just 7kW chargers and the rapid chargers top out at 50kW funnily enough at a petrol station.
Things are starting to change though as both McDonald’s and Starbucks are getting chargers installed and by the looks of it they will be much faster than 50kW and if one of the supermarkets manages to get one as well then I think owning an EV here will become practical as most people in the older part of town would live within a mile of a modern rapid charger.
Here in Colorado Xcel Energy has a program where they absorb the initial cost of installing a charger in your garage. Then you just pay a monthly fee. That's probably what I'll do if I'm ever in a position where I can afford an EV.
In spite of the baiting, and bullshit, the EV will never achieve more than 25% private market share. The infrastructure investment will never happen. The EV also lacks character and soul. Depressing the 'prissy switch' can never get close to the experience of burning petroleum.
Not in Australia its not happening plenty of petrol stations around l do watch this chanel some of the stuffs good and the complication in getting to recharge your electric car you can put petrol in your car and even pay cash for it these various companies with there different ways of payment extremely comlicated petrol stations have the same way of filling your ICE car up remove the nosel from the pump put it in the filler fill it up a minute or so depending on the size of your tank walk to counter pay for it with your debit or credit card or cash get in your car drive away when recharging your could be as simple as that also the faster you go in an EV the more charge you use on a motor way were with an ICE it uses less petrol
Case 1. A bank of rapid chargers installed 4 months ago in Leicestershire 6 chargers STILL with covers over them yet…the fossil pumps along with the entire forcourt working for that whole duration. Case 2. Shell garage same area had four spaces for the chargers installed including hard standings completed over 2 months ago and still no chargers! Case 3. I'm on my 2nd BEV since early 2018 and you're comment on its improving rapidly is utter in Roberts words B***ocks ;). Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure! We don't need more innovation mate we need the fossil fuel giants to up their game. Cheers
sitting in the car of an evening at a rapid charger is fine if you have something downloaded to watch on your device, a long phone call to make to family, or a bunch of emails to delete (I mean read). You'd be sat at home watching TV, making the call anyway on the laptop anyway.
You know how they used to lie about fuel consumption & fuel emissions, well car companies now lie about the range their vehicles will do on a charge. I have a leaf, that lies about range it will do, currently trying out a Peugeot E 208 & that also lies, so without a doubt, the corsa will lie, the Zoe will lie, because they all run on the same gear! Many others probably lie. I look forward to the day, that companies start telling the TRUTH!!! If cars don't do what they promise, then why are they £24000 & upwards from that??
The local council issue is frustrating as hell , I've been in discussions with my local council for over 12 months about allowing me to install a cable gully ( same as kerbo in this video) They haven't said "no" but won't say yes. To make matters worse i live at the end of a cul de sac so the installation wouldn't cause any issues. Life would be so much easier with a cable gully and not having to looking for working public chargers, I'm seriously starting to think this EV world isn't for me. I could be back to the pollution producing fossil fuel soon,
As a side note on the councils website it states its looking to go much greener this year…total BS
Short and sweet (not Jack obvs, who could never be accused of being short!), and full of useful thought-provoking information. Fabby McFab.
It is a comparative pain though, if you live in a flat above ground level, and have to park in a separate area. Do you have any guidance on setting up a multiple communal charging point through your block's management company?
I charged my 21' bolt EV exclusively at an Electrify America station for over a year, before I moved into a house with a garage and got my 22' EUV. Totally fine. Would charge it up once every couple weeks. Took about an hour or so.
This is my first time hearing light post charger, this makes EV charging much more accessible. This option should get more publication.
You forgot to mention the option of charging while at work. And some work places provide free charging. Having said that, make sure you follow work guidelines on charging especially when there are many wanting or need to charge their cars to get home.
Just drove across Europe, UK to Greece and back. Tesla all the way on a 75kw battery. Never worry about charging with their network.
One solution I'm missing is charging at work
My friend, who lives in a flat, uses Tesco 7kw chargers for free during her weekly shop. Works out quite well for her.
I'm definitely an advocate for electric cars, (would love one but with the small mileage I do too expensive) but convincing the average driver that they will have to walk 10 mins to pick up their car everyday when they could park an ice car outside is a non starter. The average person will always go for convenience first. Just look at how people accepted low quality MP3 music over higher quality cds as an example.
I think the ultimate solution is for charging at work. If we are all driving to work, then we should be encouraging our employers to invest in chargers in the car park. Many companies offer a range of benefits to attract employees, this could be one of them. I'm sure that the accountants could find a way of making a solar install on the roof and chargers in the car park a tax write off for the business, so win-win for all concerned.
10:02 That illustration of a VW ID.4 with a charge port under the front VW badge kkkkkkkkkk. Wait. Why didn't VW put the charge port there anyway? I prefer charge ports at the front where I just drive into a bay and plug in. No stretching of cables and scratching your paint while trying to reach a port on the front fender (I'm looking at you Taycan and you Audi etron)
My council are gonna fit ONE in my road by 2025 🤦
Can you send this to Marvin Rees – Mayor of Bristol. Desperately poor EV street network & it’s hampering take up in city centre residential areas. I would like to go electric but there’s nothing.
An important factor you forgot to mention, cost.
these slow overnight chargers would be good if they aren't so expensive, 49p to 69p/kWh. similar to petrol px now. unless you often have to drive into central London and want to avoid congestion charge, then it's better to stick with gas car for now until more MG4 (px wise) comes along.
I'd stick with my local Tesla superchargers costing only 30p/kWh thank you very much. It doesn't annoy me that much when the phantom drain goes up in winter (typical loss is around 3-4% per week).
my experience with local supermarket free chargers weren't good, either iced, or out of order, or too many ev waiting… it felt like it's always a bit of a gamble unfortunately.
It’s true that things are changing. I live in a town of around 30,000 people. The biggest issue here is that the older part of the town that I live in having a driveway is impossible for most people and due to the way the houses are laid out you can’t run a cable neither.
The town has two major supermarkets and neither offer charging, neither do Aldi or Lidl not even the M&S food store does. Most of the chargers in the town are just 7kW chargers and the rapid chargers top out at 50kW funnily enough at a petrol station.
Things are starting to change though as both McDonald’s and Starbucks are getting chargers installed and by the looks of it they will be much faster than 50kW and if one of the supermarkets manages to get one as well then I think owning an EV here will become practical as most people in the older part of town would live within a mile of a modern rapid charger.
Here in Colorado Xcel Energy has a program where they absorb the initial cost of installing a charger in your garage. Then you just pay a monthly fee. That's probably what I'll do if I'm ever in a position where I can afford an EV.
In spite of the baiting, and bullshit, the EV will never achieve more than 25% private market share. The infrastructure investment will never happen. The EV also lacks character and soul. Depressing the 'prissy switch' can never get close to the experience of burning petroleum.
Not in Australia its not happening plenty of petrol stations around l do watch this chanel some of the stuffs good and the complication in getting to recharge your electric car you can put petrol in your car and even pay cash for it these various companies with there different ways of payment extremely comlicated petrol stations have the same way of filling your ICE car up remove the nosel from the pump put it in the filler fill it up a minute or so depending on the size of your tank walk to counter pay for it with your debit or credit card or cash get in your car drive away when recharging your could be as simple as that also the faster you go in an EV the more charge you use on a motor way were with an ICE it uses less petrol
England is so far ahead of Australia with infrastructure.
Case 1. A bank of rapid chargers installed 4 months ago in Leicestershire 6 chargers STILL with covers over them yet…the fossil pumps along with the entire forcourt working for that whole duration. Case 2. Shell garage same area had four spaces for the chargers installed including hard standings completed over 2 months ago and still no chargers! Case 3. I'm on my 2nd BEV since early 2018 and you're comment on its improving rapidly is utter in Roberts words B***ocks ;). Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure! We don't need more innovation mate we need the fossil fuel giants to up their game. Cheers
sitting in the car of an evening at a rapid charger is fine if you have something downloaded to watch on your device, a long phone call to make to family, or a bunch of emails to delete (I mean read). You'd be sat at home watching TV, making the call anyway on the laptop anyway.
You know how they used to lie about fuel consumption & fuel emissions, well car companies now lie about the range their vehicles will do on a charge. I have a leaf, that lies about range it will do, currently trying out a Peugeot E 208 & that also lies, so without a doubt, the corsa will lie, the Zoe will lie, because they all run on the same gear! Many others probably lie.
I look forward to the day, that companies start telling the TRUTH!!!
If cars don't do what they promise, then why are they £24000 & upwards from that??
Jack, get off Rob's desk!
Another option for charging using another EV driver's charge point PlugShare.
Great video! Really important to spreading credible info that solves problems.
The local council issue is frustrating as hell , I've been in discussions with my local council for over 12 months about allowing me to install a cable gully ( same as kerbo in this video)
They haven't said "no" but won't say yes.
To make matters worse i live at the end of a cul de sac so the installation wouldn't cause any issues.
Life would be so much easier with a cable gully and not having to looking for working public chargers,
I'm seriously starting to think this EV world isn't for me.
I could be back to the pollution producing fossil fuel soon,
As a side note on the councils website it states its looking to go much greener this year…total BS
Cant wait for induction charging to go mainstream.
Loved the Kryton head / molds 👍🏻
So many new options covered in this clip👏. Well done👍