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- '12 MX-5 PRHT, '02 Freelander, '90 Disco 1 Bobtail
Not much to report on the car itself, I washed it after returning from my holiday on the east coast and took a friend on a mini roadtrip to thank my friend who gifted me Deathloop. it's now done around £3700
However, the charging on my journey to and from my holiday destination was something else. There aren't many chargers above 50kW in the east of England, when going on holiday I could basically make it all the way on one charge but that would leave me with almost nothing when I arrive and then very few places to charge up. Charging the car at the destination itself isn't allowed because the electricity is included in the accommodation price.
Anyway, I had a choice of three places to stop and charge. The first is the Tesla supercharger I used last year (the only supercharger in Norfolk) and where I got caught speeding by a sneaky van. The second is Ionity but I'm not paying their prices and finally there's a BP station right on the quickest route that now has three 150kW chargers. Yay, I'll use those.
When I arrived there was a group in a Taycan looking confused but I plugged my car in, paid on the second card I tried because it wouldn't accept the first and then waited for the charge current to bump up above 25kW. It didn't. The group with the Taycan couldn't even either of the other chargers to connect to their car but it could've been their car. They left and I called up BP, who rebooted my charger. After it had finished rebooting it briefly got up to 26kW, before dropping to 24kW and I got bored after half an hour. They're charging £0.42/kWh for this, which is very cheeky.
I topped the car up at the cheaper of the two public 50kW chargers (there are several chargers around but a majority are private), which was OK as it chugged along at 43kW, then on the way home I stopped at BP again to give it another try. This was the 'fuel crisis' weekend so I was concerned about even getting in, luckily it was early enough in the morning that there were no other cars there. This time it managed a whopping 37kW! I charged for about 10 minutes and left. This gave me about 10% charge, which was OK.
I'm becoming tired of the lack of progress with EV chargers in this country.
However, the charging on my journey to and from my holiday destination was something else. There aren't many chargers above 50kW in the east of England, when going on holiday I could basically make it all the way on one charge but that would leave me with almost nothing when I arrive and then very few places to charge up. Charging the car at the destination itself isn't allowed because the electricity is included in the accommodation price.
Anyway, I had a choice of three places to stop and charge. The first is the Tesla supercharger I used last year (the only supercharger in Norfolk) and where I got caught speeding by a sneaky van. The second is Ionity but I'm not paying their prices and finally there's a BP station right on the quickest route that now has three 150kW chargers. Yay, I'll use those.
When I arrived there was a group in a Taycan looking confused but I plugged my car in, paid on the second card I tried because it wouldn't accept the first and then waited for the charge current to bump up above 25kW. It didn't. The group with the Taycan couldn't even either of the other chargers to connect to their car but it could've been their car. They left and I called up BP, who rebooted my charger. After it had finished rebooting it briefly got up to 26kW, before dropping to 24kW and I got bored after half an hour. They're charging £0.42/kWh for this, which is very cheeky.
I topped the car up at the cheaper of the two public 50kW chargers (there are several chargers around but a majority are private), which was OK as it chugged along at 43kW, then on the way home I stopped at BP again to give it another try. This was the 'fuel crisis' weekend so I was concerned about even getting in, luckily it was early enough in the morning that there were no other cars there. This time it managed a whopping 37kW! I charged for about 10 minutes and left. This gave me about 10% charge, which was OK.
I'm becoming tired of the lack of progress with EV chargers in this country.