Vestel ECharger EVC04-AC11-T2P

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EO says it’s the smallest smart charger in the world, though it appears to have been overtaken by the Wallbox Pulsar Plus. I suspect because the introduction of automobiles was very gradual and had time for the infrastructure to catch up. You now have 30 odd million cars on the road and growing…. At one point we had a charger per every 4 or 5 EVs. Now it’s 1 per 11. And going in the wrong direction. There has been a lot of coverage even within the EV favourable media outlets. It’s becoming a problem for some people already. And that’s still a tiny tiny minority of EV cars out there. Imagine when we are talking 20M on the roads….I think early adopters can only see how it is now. Rather than imagining 5 cars all competing for one charging point. This is the challenge for infrastructure…it’s fine now for early buyers. It becomes less fine unless the infrastructure improves in line with adoption. And we know already it isn’t. One of the more expensive options for public charging are rapid charge points that are typically found at motorway service stations. This is because they offer a faster charge (average charge time to 80% is around 20-40 minutes) and because of their convenient location when you’re making longer journeys.

All you are doing is repeating that infrastructure needs to keep improving, and needs to improve more than it is - I don't see anyone arguing with that. But I don't see how you arrived at hundreds of chargers being needed at service stations which was your original claim. Any chance you might shed some light on how you arrived at this number? The machine also pairs with the Pod Point App, but this app isn’t as highly rated as most others on the App Store or Google Play – and for good reason. If you have solar panels, you won’t have as many options as with the Zappi charger, but you can still use the app to make sure you’re using solar energy to charge your car.But if you’re looking for a cut-price budget option, this is your knight in solid if unspectacular armour. Ok, so we'll all charge overnight from midnight to 5am as per the EV tariffs - so lets say 75% of the 229 GWh per day is pushed into those 5 hours, that would increase demand by 35GW overnight - taking us well above the typical daytime usage (night is 20+ summer / 30+ winter) - so in winter the overnight charging would hit 65GW which exceeds the current highest daytime peak!

It also receives software updates if you connect it to a wifi network, which means it’ll get better and better over time – and if there’s an issue with the machine, a support team can fix it remotely. Nevertheless, its size makes it easy to hide in plain sight, though among the four colours it comes in is the extremely bright EO blue , so you can show it off if you want.The blue light will be solid when the electric car is fully charged or the charging session has been suspended. Not including the fact to we need to generate 10% more than demand to cover transmission losses so the above numbers are on the conservative side. Also 10% charging losses not included. And I've not included lorries and buses because I don't know their miles per kWh. I also used 4 mile per kWh to be optimistic as that is considered very efficient.