Electric car recharging stations
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I'm lost for words
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Am I seeing that right? A dirty great diesel generator?
Oldfentiger
Veteran
- Location
- Pendle, Lancs
That’s hilarious.
Yup!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
North Wales ? Only kidding, but there are virtually no charging points in N. Wales.
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Or Norfolk, guy across the road from my mate wanted to go to Norfolk & back, so worked out where the charging points were, planned his route, was due to go down one day, stay over & drive back next. Came back 4 days later, won't talk about the experience but didn't drive the car for 3 weeks afterwards.
Andy in Germany
Guru
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
Aldi is starting to have free charging points for cars and bikes for customers here.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Got dragged up to MK yesterday. They have plenty of charging stations and reserved bays, all empty. Build and they shall come...not.
Mrs D's new car is due to arrive first week of September, Volvo XC90 T8. It does about 25 miles on the batteries, which is good enough for a ride into town and back, and the petrol motor/ hybrid for longer jaunts. I wonder if this might be the way forward, at least for the intermediate period?
Chatting to a mate of mine that dabbles in used car sales, and he says plug in hybrids such as the Outlander are starting to leak down to the level he buys and sells at, and he reckons almost all of them come to him at 3, 4, 5 years old with the charging lead unopened, still in its original packaging...
Mrs D's new car is due to arrive first week of September, Volvo XC90 T8. It does about 25 miles on the batteries, which is good enough for a ride into town and back, and the petrol motor/ hybrid for longer jaunts. I wonder if this might be the way forward, at least for the intermediate period?
Chatting to a mate of mine that dabbles in used car sales, and he says plug in hybrids such as the Outlander are starting to leak down to the level he buys and sells at, and he reckons almost all of them come to him at 3, 4, 5 years old with the charging lead unopened, still in its original packaging...
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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- Northamptonshire
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
This will fix it
Yup, that's a diesel generator that charges the batteries as you drive - genius!
Yup, that's a diesel generator that charges the batteries as you drive - genius!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
That's because there were tax incentives for using them in company car fleets. Problem is they're utterly impractical for anyone doing serious mileage so the batteries were never used and companies just took the tax benefits.
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flake99please
We all scream for ice cream
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- Edinburgh
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
It is not dirty. It is painted white and very clean actually.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
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- 52 Festive Road
There's a big gap in Central N Wales (but there's not much population either, of course), but the other centres seem well-covered, based on a quick look at a national map.
