Petrol stations have various strict requirements regarding their electrical installations for obvious reasons. How will adding a MW size supply for a few high power chargers be dealt with, separation? Will earth leakage currents be a problem? If I remember correctly the reason the canopys are so high is to move the lighting into a different zone.
Maybe, ones installed with the OLEV grant are supposed to collect data, I'm not sure how many do in practice. At least some are reliant on the homeowners WiFi connection (which the owner has no motivation to maintain, so will disappear as soon as the owner changes their WiFi password or gets a new router) and others use a cellular backhaul but actual signal conditions are anybody's guess. There are plenty of dumb ones installed without the grant, there are people who charge on "granny cables", and then there's all the public ones fragmented across many owners.
If anyone has the data it's probably the car manufacturer's. The cars know where they are, if they're charging and how fast, etc.
I listened to a Schneider podcast on the way back from a job a few days ago, it was said that Scotland has a lot more sensible charging point network without many of the issues and problems that there are in England.
Basically the Government in England are not ensuring the “public” EV charging network is user friendly.
as too "little uptake of EVs" i live in deepest darkest wales, Bridgend (where the ford engine plant was before it became obsolete) i drive a nissan leaf and we have a renault kangoo ZE van.. my 4 mile trip to work "EV spotting" normally throws up 3 or 4 leafs, a few bmw i 3s .. 2 bmw i8s and over a dozen teslas.. and this is out in the sticks with all them sheep batting their eyelids at me.. city centers and olev zones must be crawling in them..
So far this year 7.2% of new car sales have been BEVs so may be 1:100 on the roads are electric. They are more obvious to a pedestrian than another vehicle user.
I had a mildly tunned 1975 Dolomite Sprint. 2nd/2nd od were good for hopping through the traffic across Salisbury Plain. I think that the big Triumph gearbox was the only one to offer overdrive on 2nd. Most only had it on top or sometimes 3rd.
An interesting thread with the usual deviations ? My question regarding EV chargers at petrol stations was answered. I don't think I need the CoP but it is useful to know it exists. It was also interesting to learn that the certain areas of the UK are now installing 3 phase to new domestic properties as has been the case on the continent for decades.
