Europe's most powerful electric vehicle charging hub

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10 x 350kw, 12 Tesla v3, 22 x 22 kw AC, nice for Zoes and easy upscaling due to its ultra high connection to grid and massive battery storage.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whilst excellent to see so many chargers at a single location, making queuing or broken charger a thing of past...... for a while......

 

If the location for more of these going to be is more dictated by grid connections, instead of road connections....... I would prefer if trunk road services stepped up and get half the car park filled with rapid chargers.

11 hours ago, wyx087 said:

Whilst excellent to see so many chargers at a single location, making queuing or broken charger a thing of past...... for a while......

 

If the location for more of these going to be is more dictated by grid connections, instead of road connections....... I would prefer if trunk road services stepped up and get half the car park filled with rapid chargers.

 

The design of the Red bridge Oxford hub, and its link to the National Grid but also the local very large battery storage devices which means that the AC and DC charger at these Oxford sites can be power 24/7 and with the higher rates of power and at potentially lower cost, or higher profit to the operators.

 

The A34 is a very busy Truck Road. almost the key one for South-North travel in the centre of England, though I do find the bit to the South of Oxford not so great for connectivity to good A roads and the link down to the M4 a little slow sometimes and not built for higher cruising speeds compared to the North side of Oxford and its links to the M40 and East-West A roads like the A40 and A44.  

 

The Red Bridge Oxford hub has been designed to end up with at least 400 EV charger so fairly future proof.

 

For me, I'd use M4 or M40, so its location is a bit out of the way for me. I suspect it would be the case for a lot of people from London. Would have been better to build it next to motorways. The location feels similar to that Braintree hub: not on biggest trunk roads (motorway). 

 

But totally agree with battery storage. I've been saying this since 2018/2019, rapid charging hub + stationary battery is the way forward. 

10 hours ago, wyx087 said:

For me, I'd use M4 or M40, so its location is a bit out of the way for me. I suspect it would be the case for a lot of people from London. Would have been better to build it next to motorways. The location feels similar to that Braintree hub: not on biggest trunk roads (motorway). 

But totally agree with battery storage. I've been saying this since 2018/2019, rapid charging hub + stationary battery is the way forward. 

 

If one lives in the Worcester, Tewkesbury, Gloucester or Cheltenham surrounding areas then one can cut many miles off the journey to London using the A roads rather than the M4 or M40 plus the cruising speed is going to be more in the super eco zone rather than the guzzling motorway speeds.

 

Therefore I am happy that there is more charging points on these A roads.  A part from Banbury there seems to be a bit of shortage healthy sized charger banks on the M4 and M40 route.