Calls For More Electric Car Charge Points In Wales

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38984848

Apparently, all the public charging points in Wales are along the M4 in the South, and on the A55 in the North.

So..... how would anyone drive from South Wales to North Wales, without knocking some doors on route and relying on the kindness on strangers ?

[Zacs-Master]

Their data is...out of date
https://www.zap-map.com/pts/8bvis3n/

http://www.national-charge-point-registry.uk

[ABerrant]

The report is calling for more Rapid charging points (80% charge in around 30 mins).

Using the links kindly provided by ZM all publicly available Rapid charge points to be found in Wales are... along the M4 (plus Carmarthen) and the A55 (plus Holyhead, Anglesey).

Recharging in Newtown using the Slow charge point would take 6-8 hours.

[Zacs-Master]

Snot what Mikey boys OP says.

[OldBather]

Down here(Kent & East Sussex),checking the map of charging points against the actually functioning chargers,at any one time 50% were not functioning.Some of the blank areas will leave Electric Car drivers open to being stranded.

[Samjenko]

Doubt anyone contemplating long journeys would be foolish enough to buy/rely on an all electric car.

[OldBather]

Indeed Samjenko,and there are of course hybrid/electric cars;but the all electric ones are being pushed most.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, the last thing that the nation needs is to encourage a greater demand on the electricity supply. We already don't have the new nuclear plants in place. So maybe it's a moral decision by Wales not to encourage it.

[mikey4444]

So if I can recharge the car in Newtown, the journey from South to North will take about 12 hours in an electric car, instead of about 3-4 hours by normal cars.

Does anyone really think this is sustainable ?

So, while electric vehicles may be OK for local use, like delivering milk for instance, they are useless for anything else. So what is the point ?

[ABerrant]

Not arguing against the report but currently (pun intended) you always have the option of utilising the trunk route (M4 - A449 - M50 - M5 - M6 - M53 - A55) which, for an electric car with a range of at least 150 miles, would involve one 30+ minute rapid recharge (Frankley Svcs -ish) within a sub 5-hour roadtime journey.

[mikey4444]

ABerrant

But what would be the point of such a journey ? If I wanted to drive to Bangor, I would take the most direct route possible, not go all around the houses, just because I thought that my car would grind to a halt, because it had run out of fuel.

At the first Services that you come to on arriving in Wales on the M4, at Magor. it has 2 charging points. So what happens when a third car comes along ?

Wales can't be the only place on Britain that doesn't have enough charging points.

I go to Cornwall on a regular basis. Door to door its 270 miles. This takes about 4-5 hours by a regular car, but how long would that journey take by a Nissan Leaf ?

Until electric cars can go 350-400 miles on one charge, they will never amount to more than an expensive toy.