EV Charging round here

[DuncanW]

Does anyone have any top tips for a new EV/Hybrid driver on where to charge-up?

What is the deal with the Source charging points on Townley Road? Do you need to be a member?

Are the ones at Sainsbury's ever working?

Thanks

[sally buying]

In the pub as you realise you have been sucked into the green con.

[snowy]

^^Mustang Sally

[Rockets]

Are there none on the road you live on? There are a few scattered around on most roads.

[EDResident2018]

There are loads of options around ED. There’s an app called ZapMap, which is a good place to start, it’ll show you all of the local charging spots.

best value / most convenient are chargers built into lampposts. There are tons of these around ED, so hopefully there will be some local to you. They are slow (7kw) but relatively cheap for charging overnight.

The source London chargers are fine, but you do need to sign up via their website. You can start charging with your phone.

if you want rapid/ultra rapid chargers, Tessa Jowel Health Centre have 2, and a couple of options in Forest Hill on the south circular. These are generally quite expensive.

The Sainsbury’s ones have not worked in a very long time.

Hope that helps

 

[DuncanW]

That's helpful thank you, although mainly confirms what we already knew. 

There are lamp-post chargers on our street but you can't always get close to them. 

[alex_b]

We use Electroverse, which lets you charge across most of the networks. As Octopus Energy customers it’s also added directly to our energy bill which is handy. I tend to use the char.gy lamppost chargers as there are more of those around our house.
 

Source has a really aggressive idling charge given they are slow chargers - kicking in after 10 mins rather than after 24hrs with chargy - I tend to leave our car to charge overnight once a week on a schedule to take advantage of chargy’s overnight rate. That wouldn’t work with Source. 
 

When I need a faster charger to fill up before a long trip the ones at Tessa Jowell are handy but more expensive than the slow onstreet ones. Remember to register your licence plate when you arrive to avoid a parking fine. 

[DuncanW]

Thanks for that - I already got myself a ticket at Tessa Jowell on the first day of owning the car - doh!!