@Masky Thanks for that. It sounds like one hell of a lot of hassle just to make a not particularly long journey, but you seem to have taken it all in your stride. It just goes to show how much work still needs to be done to improve the charging infrastructure and why, for many, it would be off putting.
interestingly I thought the opposite. yes, this journey took effort but now we are aware we’d have the pulse app ready and preloaded and if it were to be repeated you’d be able to charge cheaply in the car park while you got on with the shopping. It’s just a case of learning the new way of doing things.
Possibly, but if I do a journey of just 123 miles I don’t stop en-route, and as long as I have half a tank of petrol when I set off (which I would) then I wouldn’t have to spend a nano second thinking about any of these things whatsoever on either the outward or return journey.
I appreciate that there are savings to be made, if that’s the overriding objective with a car, but as for convenience it adds a level of complexity and hassle that I have never had to experience and, as yet, it doesn’t sound like progress. In years to come, when EVs have achievable ranges that match ICE cars and can be charged in the same time it takes to fill up a car with petrol or diesel, then problem solved.