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Have you ever waited to charge on a DC Charger? (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Hi everyone,

I’m a long time EV driver (first one being a Twizzy back in 2013) and I was wondering: have you ever waited to charge on DC fast charger on the highway for example?

One of my ev-skeptic colleagues told me I saw multiple lines of multiple EVs waiting to charge on the highway this summer. I never witnessed it or being through this myself and I’m more incline to think that this is grossly exaggerated but you never really know… so have you had such experience?

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It does look like PlugShare has coverage in Europe, but I don't know if it's as necessary — from what I hear y'all have much better charging infrastructure. J.D. Power does have some non-US surveys, though I only see Canada and China.

[–] hylobates@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Depends on the country. In France, we have a relatively stable, performant and available charging infrastructure for DC or AC (with a lot of 22kW AC charger because of the Renault Zoé). In Belgium, Italy or Spain things are a lot sparser and difficult for EV owners.

EDIT: ChargeMaps seems to be a more European friendly alternative to PlugShare. In my own neighbourhood, I saw only 1 AC station on PlugShare, 3 DC station + a lot of AC station on ChargeMaps which reflects the reality more closely.