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Originally posted by birdman29: ↑

November 28, 2020
Acouple from Kent have described how it took them more than nine hours to drive 130 miles home from Bournemouth as they struggled to find a working charger capable of producing enough power to their electric car.
Linda Barnes and her husband had to visit six charging stations as one after another they were either out of order, already had a queue or were the slow, older versions that would never be able to provide a fast enough charge in the time...

The latest electric cars require fast 50kW-100kW chargers to refill on the go but they are hard to find and are often out of action...

Their journey shows the scale of the challenge the government faces if it is to have a working infrastructure in place ahead of its ban on new petrol and electric cars in 2030...
Linda Barnes says they knew they would have to stop for a fast charge on the way home but were unprepared for what happened next.
“We left Bournemouth with 45 miles of range left and followed the car’s navigation system to the nearest fast charger, plugged it in but nothing happened,” she says. “A parking attendant told us it had been out of action for weeks.”

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Huge price rise for vital tesla feature
NOVEMBER 13, 2020

One of the biggest selling points of a Tesla has gone up in smoke.
Tesla recently announced it has increased the price for using its supercharger network to 52 cents per kW, a sharp rise of 24 per cent.
The price hike makes it more expensive to fast-charge Teslas than to refill petrol-powered rivals.

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