Sorry I’ve had to rewrite this post as my other one I just noticed had copyright pictures in so must of went into the spam folder.
Anyway I agree with you about the lack of EV’s that can carry a wheelchair or assembled scooter (my main concern along with AP cost for large EV’s) but the point about the out of order chargers is something I’ve never thought about but queues at chargers are. To avoid the spam filter I have to say to do a Google for “Black Friday Tesla fail” and read about how folk spent hours in a queue for a quick charger. Something that is easily fixed by more charger but let’s face it, if the all wonderful super rich and environmentally friendly Californians can’t get it right what chance have we.
Anyway I agree with you about the lack of EV’s that can carry a wheelchair or assembled scooter (my main concern along with AP cost for large EV’s) but the point about the out of order chargers is something I’ve never thought about but queues at chargers are. To avoid the spam filter I have to say to do a Google for “Black Friday Tesla fail” and read about how folk spent hours in a queue for a quick charger. Something that is easily fixed by more charger but let’s face it, if the all wonderful super rich and environmentally friendly Californians can’t get it right what chance have we.
Twice I’ve experiences a queue, once when I turned up at a single charger & someone was charging their Leaf, I arrived & they were at 98% and asleep in the car, so I awaited the 100% mark & knocked on his window, he was happy I’d saved him the overstay charge & immediately disconnected. Time wasted, about 5 minutes, so no problem. The second time it was me causing the queue at a 150kW charger, I pulled in to the second charger as another Leaf was in the first one, plugged in & started charging, soon to find that taxi drivers thought that they owned the chargers (they were Polar chargers & I’m a member). I told them to get lost & charged rapidly to about 70% in 15 minutes before leaving them to it.
I think that there are going to be times when the queues appear (Friday early evening, Sunday early evening) and places that queues appear (A30 to Cornwall in summer). Watching some of Bjorn Nyland’s videos when he’s testing a car coinciding with a bank holiday you can see him encountering charger queues.
It’s going to be years before we have enough chargers in enough places to completely avoid queues as the numbers of EVs rapidly increases. The trick will be knowing when they are going to be busy & avoiding those times, like we have for driving down to Cornwall around August Bank Holidays for decades.
As for simply putting in more chargers quickly, that’s not so easy, those chargers will need an electricity supply & that can take years to arrange for a site, that’s why there are still some motorway service stations that don’t have EH chargers.