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?

    • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      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.luOPEnglish
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        18 days 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.