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No I’m not pulling your leg?
Manners experts Debrett’s have teamed up with Vauxhall to create the definitive guide to electric vehicle etiquette, including a number of dos and don’ts.
The EV Etiquette Guide includes tips on the polite way to charge your car when visiting friends, advice on how to queue when waiting for a public charging bay, and whether it’s okay to unplug other vehicles at charge points.
It also features guidance on leaving charge points in a state you’d hope to find them in and advice on allowing enough room for larger vehicles to fit in public charging bays next to you.
Vauxhall, which has promised to offer fully electric versions of all of the models in its vehicle line up by 2024, partnered with Debrett’s to create the guide, which follows a study of EV drivers by the car manufacturer.
You can view a PDF version of the guide here:
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Please tell me this is tongue in cheek? I was disagreeing by the 3rd paragraph as knowing you vehicle doesn’t equate to charging to 80%.
Whilst the general gist of what they’re saying kind of rings true it’s not even close to the be all and end all of etiquette. The first rule of EV charging etiquette is not to rapid charge to 100% if there’s a queue. It’s slow and will waste your time but also it’s slow and another car could easily have substantial charge in the time it takes for your car to get from where it’s throttled back up to 100%. Even the 800V Architecture cars are charging well below 50kW by 90% and its rare for any car to still be that high at 95%. I know mine passes 85% within 10% of max rate but by 90% charge is running at 20kW rate and keeps throttling back. In reality for a 77kWh battery running at 10kW you’ll see a 1% improvement in less time that you were clocking 10% improvement at peak charging.
Yes queuing will always be important, and recognising there’s a queue when they’re all in parking spots canbe very tricky. I’m sure there’s been incidents where people have unwittingly jumped a queue and I’m equally sure, as uptake increases, there will be a point where violence occurs as some impatient idiot feels more inclined to charge ahead of those waiting.
I think the point of this is pretty much ‘be a decent human being’ and don’t be a complete tit and we’ll all get along just fine. It’s already the case that many EV owners will help those obviously new and many conversations have been had whilst waiting to charge or for that charge. Even for a grumpy git like me.
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