It’s a necessary step. I wonder what the charger companies will make of it and what Tesla will do as their payment system is in car.
Reliability is essential, I’m bored of ‘arrived at xxx and nothing was working’ it has to be better than that. What happens, though, about chargers that are no longer in contract? There was a number put up in Council car parks in Cornwall under a contract that no longer exists. Whilst the busier chargers have been replaced, there are ones which weren’t getting enough use to be a priority and haven’t worked for either months or years.
D of T has to step up if the 2030 target has even half a chance of not becoming 2050 and this is a good start. I’m sure there are those on this forum who will appreciate that there’s a huge number of chargers that are simply inacessible, whether it’s bollards too close, pavements or space around the car, this has been addressed by British (and other) standards to state what a good installation looks like but I’m not sure there’s much ability to enforce these, whether that’s a lack of appetite or a lack of personnel to check they fit.
Maybe this is something Motability and it’s fleet could help with. A simple survey we can fill out of the stops we make on journeys (something we can do while charging) and they can gather a huge amount of data very quickly, especially with the holiday season imminent. Although, that ship will have sailed by the time the survey and website has been created and publicised.
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