FWIW I have had a totally harmless post or 2 censored and have seen posts that should be censored - not.
I found myself going down the "I'm pissed and don't mind saying it" rathole once or twice. Thankfully, I recovered my sanity and deleted the post.
I am not sure that the government has intervened for HPC in France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium or Scandinavia?. I might be wrong? But a lot of good Roll out along the major routes have been established. Driving from Nice to Calais, I think I saw about 30 - 40 km between service stations with HPC. Ionity, Total, Fastned, Tesla open for all. And many more networks. Most annoying thing is that for some of these networks you need separate apps etc. The UK is La king that roll out big time with many nice routes and places, totally lack of chargers unfortunately. Hope it will improve soon.
I think there's an unavoidable chicken-and-egg aspect of this. In the long term, there has to be sufficient ROI for whoever builds the charging infrastructure to continue to maintain and expand it. It's an open question (and my guess is "no") whether absent any public sector nudging, EV prevalence will reach sufficient critical mass to spur speculative private sector investment in chargers.
What? First off, you’re certainly not that naive, are you? You did some minimal research on charging infrastructure before you bought your car, right?
At a high level, Tesla Supercharger network gives me reliable 20-30 charging stops, and they've had that for over 5 years. I trusted that the entire rest of the industry would manage to eventually match what one little startup delivered. The initial EA press was certainly very much focused on showing 750+ chargers and 2B in spend etc. Porsche also had material about how they would have their own chargers. Reality failed to deliver. That happens. And when it happens, you read about it in blogs and forums(used to be magazines,etc. but those are all click-bait stories now). That's one of my reasons for sharing my experience - so somebody considering options can factor that in.
To be completely honest, I fell for the Porsche advertising too. I was expecting 800V architecture and rapid DC HV charging as part of the package of buying the Taycan. This was my first EV, and so I trusted the hype more than I should have.
They do 250 and the newer cars reliably hit 250 and then taper down. I can't tell you which year / model is the inflection point. Every Tesla I've ever owned or charged (including rentals), has hit >200kw when sufficiently discharged and kept it up for quite a while. Does it keep it up as long as a Taycan? Under perfect conditions - no. But I have certainly spent magnitudes more minutes charging a Tesla at over 200kw than my Taycan.
There’s been a big push in the numbers of rapid sites in the UK in the last 18 months especially. The DNOs are having a hard time keeping up with energising them.
Me too.
