Driving UK to Italy

[Scandinavian]

annoyingly, it is quite common for networks to sum up the total from a station with multiple cables (and indeed to count every plug even if they are not all available simultaneously eg Chademo { 2x CCS shows as “3”).
This is something that requires some regulatory intervention - it is as misleading as internet speeds, which at least in the UK had a huge push from regulators to stop over promising.

As far as I have seen, Ionity is the only network who state a promise that “up to 350kW” will never mean 2x”up to 175” - each cable gets the full power available.

I have seen some new French network, that advertises 2x160 kW and 2x 320 kW chargers on the site! But then there is some extra information which states max 500 kW per site! So there will be a lot of throttling when many cars charge!

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[RacingDuck]

Ionity is now also installing Alpitronic HYC400 chargers which are 2x200 kW, so even there all is not well. But at least they have 200 kW and not 150 or 75 like others.
Not sure if the HYC400 also supports giving you 400 kW until someone else plugs in at the same charger.

 

[jonjon808]

I have seen some new French network, that advertises 2x160 kW and 2x 320 kW chargers on the site! But then there is some extra information which states max 500 kW per site! So there will be a lot of throttling when many cars charge!

Was that IECharge by chance? I tried to use one of their sites near Rouen last week. This one had 3 charging posts with one at 160KW and one at 320KW, but I got no more than 100KW, even with ideal conditions. Site was really poor too. Tiny side road, with no space to turn and very short cables. No signage and no other services at all (not even a rubbish bin, soo pretty gross environment).

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