F in barstewards.  Need a full battery tomorrow and the only rapid in town is out of order since yesterday.   £5 min charge so early will get on a 11 kW AC and charge as long as not occupied as it is now. Otherwise it is set off and need 2 charging stops instead of only one.      PS. Fort William was not Non Tesla though.   That is what makes the difference.  It is as bad there for council chargers as many other seaside / loch side places in Scotland.  Crap maintenance.  

Edited 4 May, 20242 yr by Ootohere

https://be-ev.co.uk/driver-charging/pricing/price-drop/

 

Be-EV price charging price drop.

 

Hopefully more will follow.

Excellent table showing which charge point operator works with which payment:

https://www.speakev.com/threads/fuuse-wattsup-partnership-announced.186924/?post_id=3658927#post-3658927

Table can be copy and paste into Excel for filtering.

 

So essentially only need to have Octopus Electroverse and contactless bank card to cover majority.

 

If want to be sure sign up with the big individuals: BP Pulse, Podpoint and Tesla.

 

This is the rest, I can't say I've seen any of them in real life. I've only heard of Vend Electric for destination charging.

Is this true?

 

 

Just to keep things ticking along in here.....

Wetherby services had 12 new connections added over the weekend. There is a total of 39 connectors there now,

 

 

Edited 21 November, 20241 yr by Luckypants

One for those living in Norfolk, from the beginning of this month.

https://www.ospreycharging.co.uk/post/new-hub-hirsts-farm-shop--cafe-great-yarmouth

Another hub opened on the 'edge of the world' in Wales. Eon Drive open a 10x300kW plug hub. (might be 150kW per plug if both plugs on the charger are in use)

https://www.eon-uk.news/news/eon-drive-launches-first-ultra-fast-ev-charging-hub-in-wales 

Another 6x150 Osprey hub opened today.
3 new Tesla sites opened last week, one of those open to all.
A new Be.EV hub opening 7th November in Sheffield.  (half price charging if you are around there for the opening day)

Sainsburys have opened a new hub in Biggleswade. Bew to the charging market this year, they now have approximately 60 ultra rapid hubs in the UK.

Shamelessly stolen from SpeakEV forum, these have opened in the past two weeks...

 

Instavolt, Frankies Farm Shop, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0JT. 8x 160 kW CCS/Chademo.

Instavolt, Cobbs Farm Shop, Hungerford, Berkshire RG18 0SP. 6x 160 kW CCS/Chademo.

Shell Recharge, Arno's Vale, Bristol BS4 3EX. 8x 300 kW CCS, 4x Chademo

BP Pulse, Hounslow, W.London, TW5 9BA. 6x 150 kW CCS, 3x Chademo

BP Pulse, Crown Walk, Milton Keynes, MK9 3AE. 7x 50 kW CCS, 1x Chademo

EVC, Great Park, Rubery, Birmingham B45 9FP. 6x 300 kW CCS

PoGo Charge, Farmhouse Way, Solihull, B90 4EH. 10x 200 kW CCS

Gridserve, Phoenix Park Spar, Nottingham, NG16 1AE. 6x 360 kW CCS

Shell Recharge, Waitrose Lincoln, LN2 4DS. 5x 120 kW CCS

BP Pulse, M&S Pudsey, Bradford, LS28 6AR. 2x 150 kW, 5x 50 kW CCS. 6x Chademo

PoGo Charge, Pavilion Shopping Cen, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9FF. 16x 200 kW CCS

Ionity, Shawfair, Edinburgh, EH22 1FD. 6x 350 kW CCS
 

Hey, stealing from SpeakEV is my thing 😛  

 

There's a new Gridserve forecourt at A1M Stevenage junction, I saw the 4 Tesla charger pop up on the map. 

 

These hubs are opening thick and fast these days. 

I forgot about the Gridserve forecourt. They make such a hoo-haa about building them, when they finally arrive I've mentally filtered out the news.....

Edited 6 November, 20241 yr by Luckypants

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

More from Osprey
 

 

 

 

And another Gridserve HPC hub...
 

 

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

25 minutes ago, Luckypants said:

MFG, Morrisons Colindale, London, NW9 0AS. 16x 50 kW CCS.

I frequent that particular Morrisons car park semi-regularly for the Chinese food hall upstairs. Mobile signal is non existence in the semi-underground car park. The old set of AC charging posts by Chargemaster Polar were luck of draw. Sometimes works with my expired card and charge for free

 

Hopefully payment wouldn't be an issue, but I wouldn't know because I would never spend more than home peak rate for charging a few miles from home.

 

PoGo charge, first I've heard of them. Great to see Electroverse works with them. One card to rule them all.

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

Two from MFG opened last week
 

 

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

 

 

Edited 29 November, 20241 yr by Luckypants
added tweet

Found out this morning that the council hub in Wrexham in the Guildhall car park is now live.

2x80kW DC chargers

6x22kW AC chargers

Another new Osprey hub.

 

 

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

 

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

 

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.