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Gridserve Expansion at Lancaster Northbound services

Osprey continue to expand with a new 8x300kW hub at Basingstoke. Part of their partnership with Supermarket Income REIT, who own retail parks etc.

New Osprey chargers in Motherwell

A couple of MFg sites live

Shout out to Sainsbury Smartcharge. From a standing start in January 2024 they are now at over 60 ultra rapid charger hubs. Thats some roll out. https://smartcharge.co.uk/locations

The Tottenham chargers are at a service centre and were so busy Tesla staff and customers were struggling to get a charge. As you say, rammed with taxis. It shows ti me that it IS about price now there are choices. Tesla doing right by their customers by relieving the pressure from non-Teslas

It would definitely continue to rise before tailing off. Heating such a large volume of air in the car takes a lot of power, my ID.4 often uses 5kW at the start before dropping to about 1.5kW for heat on very cold days. Pre-heating the cabin with the car plugged in (and charger live if using a schedule / Octopus IO or similar) means all that extra power is drawn from the mains, making your GOM range much higher.... Short journeys that have to re-heat the cabin are real power consumers.

Tesla appear to have opened up a bunch of new sites to non-Tesla vehicles. Now there are 94 sites open to all, up from 76 last time I checked.

Unfortunately those Hankooks do not yet come in sizes to fit my ID4. 255/45R20 not available....

In the recent snowy weather we parked up the ID.4 and have been using the petrol Citigo. In the past we found the Citigo to be excellent in snow due to low weight, low power even on OEM tyres. We replaced the OE tyres due to aging cracks (car has done 21k in 8 years!) with Hankook 4S2 all-season tyres to make it an even better snow car. It's been exemplary in the snow. The ID.4 at over 2 tons with massive wide tyres and RWD would most likely have been a liability.

A new Gridserve mini-hub 3 chargers with 6 bays.

Gridserve have expanded their hub at Burton-in-Kendal services to 12 350kW chargers (up from 6). M6 northbound only, no southbound services here.

Another new Osprey hub.

Found out this morning that the council hub in Wrexham in the Guildhall car park is now live. 2x80kW DC chargers 6x22kW AC chargers

New Osprey hub at Wrexham opened today with 6 x 150kW CCS and 6x 50kW Chademo Kempower units. Plas Coch Retail Park, handy for the A483

Fastned Helen Street Glasgow G51 3HF - Junction 24 Retail Park 8 x 300kW CCS 3 x 50kW Chademo Opened about two weeks ago....

Two from MFG opened last week

Excellent job not blocking the other post.

PoGo are the Ultra-rapid charging arm of SWARCO/eVolt. Hence why they work with Electroverse as all of SWARCO managed charger do now.

Its hard to keep up with all the hubs opening, so here is another stolen post from Speak EV... SSE, Pompey Cen, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8SH. 5x 150 kW CCS, 1x Chademo Osprey, Chineham Shopping Pk, Basingstoke, RG24 8BE. 8x 300 kW CCS/Chademo MFG, Morrisons Colindale, London, NW9 0AS. 16x 50 kW CCS. Sainsburys, Bitterscote Drive, Tamworth, W Mids, B78 3HD. 9x 150 kW CCS, 1x Chademo MFG, Lincoln Rd, Newark, Notts, NG24 2NY. 7x 150 kW CCS/Chademo . Near A1M junction. Ionity, Warmsworth, Doncaster, DN4 9UX. 6x 350 kW CCS. PoGo Charge, Northgate Retail Cen, Heckmondwike, Yorks, WF16 9RL. 10x 100 kW CC

And another Gridserve HPC hub...

More from Osprey

Has your charger firmware been updated recently? My Wallbox charger does similar when on a delayed charge, sometimes the car gets a charge error instead of being told to wait by the charger. I've concluded its to do with the the way the 'random wait' mandated by the government is implemented on my charger, sometimes giving an error. Like you replugging solves it or I have found pausing the charger via the Wallbox app then starting again also fixes it.

Osprey expansion in Glasgow

Gridserve upgrade to Stafford services northbound has gone live. There are now 15 plugs and up to 350kW charging.