Charging electric cars on Club sites.

When EV cars become the norm will our streets be awash with cables as people who are lucky enough to park outside their houses charge their vehicles. Don't know what people in flats will do.

Its not just folk in flats that would have a problem, where we live we have a village green in front of our house so cannot have a drive installed. We have a very large garden so plenty of room for a double drive but alas we are not allowed to cut across the green from the road. So our vehicles sit in a private residents car park, unless a bollard charging point was installed there we would not be able to 'run' a cable across the green to our house. 

Lots of issues I think in the coming years, we already know that our village cannot cope with any more houses until they upgrade the village transformer, we will not be alone in that problem. Look how long some places are waiting to get a decent internet connection.

Lothian have six electric single deck buses, if you read the article about electric buses in cambridge then a whole real life picture is shown

Its the same in this area to enable EV charging, a large amount of investment in infrastructure will be needed first 

The EV household connector is just a normal plug at  one end with a special car connector at the other, this is the slow charge route which we used at first until we installed a fast wall charger. There are various sockets and cables for cars depending on the type of charge needed. We carry two, for slower and faster charges. 

We can use the phone  zap map to see where charge points are but our car also has a screen that tells us too, it also tells us if a charge point is in use etc.

This is what zap map looks like.

see here

Full electric models, like the best-selling Nissan Leaf, benefit far more from the rapid chargers. A single 20 minute session will add approximately 50 to 60 miles of range to a pure-electric vehicle, though that estimated distance will deplete at a faster rate when the car is driven at constant high-speeds on motorways.

Many of these cars will require a charge to reach a location, but have until now faced being blocked by plug-in hybrid owners taking advantage of the free supply of electricity.  

An Ecotricty spokesperson told us: 'Different models of plug in car will recharge at different rates, however we looked at the market, the price that other electric car networks were charging, the equivalent costs of refuelling petrol and diesel cars on the motorway and came to the conclusion that £5 per charge was a fair price to pay 

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What car have you got or has it been mentioned if so i must have missed it

When we used ecotricity at Gloucester services, we paid a fixed charge for plugging in (around £3 but might be less now) then we paid for electricity used, around £1.75 for a fast top up. We didn't really need a charge, we had got from S Somerset on a full charge but wanted to try it out and ensure the return journey was ok. We're getting more confident now with how to run the car and battery and keep things going. 

That was a reply to a previous thread. We have the BMWi3, it was a demonstrator fitted out with various gizmos that are proving useful. 

They (Ecotricity) say a flat fee of £5 for 20 min charge Brue

No, this isn't the case EasyT, where was the information found, was it the DM?

Ah, it might be because we are signed up members of ecotricity? We use a password at the chargepoint.