A new EV public charging network joint venture will be created in North America by seven major global automakers. The new network will support PLUG & CHARGE. We are missing a trick here in the UK.
Whenever someone argues that EVs are heavier, I point them at the Ionqi 5 and Santa Fe, or Tesla M3 RWD and the BMW 316d.
These show that a purpose designed EV weighs about the same as an equivalent ICE. Those complaining have normally looked at Stellantis's conversions of existing ICE cars which involved significant compromises.
Whilst I welcome the EV charging rules, I am disappointed that Plug and charge is not mandated on new public chargers. In the US, to access federal funding this is a requirement. Plug and charge, provides a faster, simpler refuelling process, benefitting the user and speeding the throughput of cars through charging hubs. Including tap and charge is a great step forward, but plug and charge is the future. Just ask anyone who has used it.
Maybe a long term ambition? Won't charging networks/apps just start rolling it out in any case. I feel like Fastned do it already in the UK... unless i'm mistaken.
Fastned don't use Plug and Charge. They use a similar but different technology, which effectively just uses the car's serial number to link it to an account.
Plug and Charge seems to be a flawed design which would explain why it is such a rarity. I get the impression the problems with Plug and Charge relate to the certificate exchange and validation, public key infrastructure, and legal issues with the billing mechanism.
You also lose discount schemes such as Electroverse, which may or may not be a good thing.
Yet another issue is how to choose which billing contract to use. For example what if two people share a car, or a company car user is charging personal or private charging. What happens with rental cars? BMW allow you to do this through their app, but what should have been simple is now complicated again.
A ‘Plug and charge’ solution, like the one delivered by Tesla, would be purely optional. If I person wants to pay by card they could do that and simply not enroll in the ‘plug and charge’ solution. Roaming payment solutions could be implemented to enable intermediaries to offer discounts across networks. I actually think this is one of the new rules coming in. In the US to access funding for rapid chargers, the providers must support ‘plug and charge’.
You could apply the same argument to the other mandates in the EV rules. Won’t the EV charging networks just role out tap to charge anyway... etc. To incentivise the rapid adoption of EVs in the Uk, we should aim to provide the very best charging experience across all networks. This wouldn’t be instead of tap to charge, but in addition. I have demonstrated plug and charge to non EV sceptics, and they could not believe it was that simple. This is what we need (in addition to the other charging rules) to help convince people to switch to EVs.
A new EV public charging network joint venture will be created in North America by seven major global automakers. The new network will support PLUG & CHARGE. We are missing a trick here in the UK.
Whenever someone argues that EVs are heavier, I point them at the Ionqi 5 and Santa Fe, or Tesla M3 RWD and the BMW 316d.
These show that a purpose designed EV weighs about the same as an equivalent ICE. Those complaining have normally looked at Stellantis's conversions of existing ICE cars which involved significant compromises.
There won't be an issue with a time based tariff, as long as the tariff is detailed beforehand.
Whilst I welcome the EV charging rules, I am disappointed that Plug and charge is not mandated on new public chargers. In the US, to access federal funding this is a requirement. Plug and charge, provides a faster, simpler refuelling process, benefitting the user and speeding the throughput of cars through charging hubs. Including tap and charge is a great step forward, but plug and charge is the future. Just ask anyone who has used it.
Maybe a long term ambition? Won't charging networks/apps just start rolling it out in any case. I feel like Fastned do it already in the UK... unless i'm mistaken.
Fastned don't use Plug and Charge. They use a similar but different technology, which effectively just uses the car's serial number to link it to an account.
Plug and Charge seems to be a flawed design which would explain why it is such a rarity. I get the impression the problems with Plug and Charge relate to the certificate exchange and validation, public key infrastructure, and legal issues with the billing mechanism.
You also lose discount schemes such as Electroverse, which may or may not be a good thing.
Yet another issue is how to choose which billing contract to use. For example what if two people share a car, or a company car user is charging personal or private charging. What happens with rental cars? BMW allow you to do this through their app, but what should have been simple is now complicated again.
A ‘Plug and charge’ solution, like the one delivered by Tesla, would be purely optional. If I person wants to pay by card they could do that and simply not enroll in the ‘plug and charge’ solution. Roaming payment solutions could be implemented to enable intermediaries to offer discounts across networks. I actually think this is one of the new rules coming in. In the US to access funding for rapid chargers, the providers must support ‘plug and charge’.
You could apply the same argument to the other mandates in the EV rules. Won’t the EV charging networks just role out tap to charge anyway... etc. To incentivise the rapid adoption of EVs in the Uk, we should aim to provide the very best charging experience across all networks. This wouldn’t be instead of tap to charge, but in addition. I have demonstrated plug and charge to non EV sceptics, and they could not believe it was that simple. This is what we need (in addition to the other charging rules) to help convince people to switch to EVs.