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I'm from the UK and recently had the experience of driving 260 miles in the new Audi e-tron, Audi's first electric car. The range in this car fully charged was only 220 miles, which is already disappointing as at £80,000 the equivalent model X would've made the journey without even recharging.online near me copies
I tried to stop to charge at around 100 miles reaming at a Ecotricity charging point which is the majority of the points on UK motorways and are rated at 50kW over CCS and 10kW over type 2. The first one we arrived at was occupied by a Nissan leaf so I moved onto to the next one thinking i had plenty of range. The next two were free but the CCS connector was broken at one and the system was offline at the next meaning it's capped at 10kW. I made it to the 5th station with 30 miles of range left so i had to charge over the 10kW connector, as the CCS was also offline, and sit for an hour so I had enough range to make it home. The state of these charges was appalling as there were one or two chargers at each location which were almost always occupied, broken or limited to 10kW.
The real problem was at 3 of the 5 of these stations there were superchargers. I was standing in the rain plugging and unplugging a old tattered connector as i could see Teslas coming and going charging 10 times faster with no agro. Seeing this people will never recommend any luxury EV except a Tesla.
From this experience I can see people returning their cars as they can barely make it anywhere in the country and with how often the stations are broken you have a very high risk of being stranded somewhere. I just can't see a reason to buy any expensive electric car that isn't a Tesla as they charge faster and the chargers actually exist.
TLDR: Travelling the UK in an Audi e-tron i could only charge at 10kW and could see Tesla's chargers working flawlessly as i waiting for hours and talked to tech support. The best advert for Tesla is having any EV that isn't one.
I tried to stop to charge at around 100 miles reaming at a Ecotricity charging point which is the majority of the points on UK motorways and are rated at 50kW over CCS and 10kW over type 2. The first one we arrived at was occupied by a Nissan leaf so I moved onto to the next one thinking i had plenty of range. The next two were free but the CCS connector was broken at one and the system was offline at the next meaning it's capped at 10kW. I made it to the 5th station with 30 miles of range left so i had to charge over the 10kW connector, as the CCS was also offline, and sit for an hour so I had enough range to make it home. The state of these charges was appalling as there were one or two chargers at each location which were almost always occupied, broken or limited to 10kW.
The real problem was at 3 of the 5 of these stations there were superchargers. I was standing in the rain plugging and unplugging a old tattered connector as i could see Teslas coming and going charging 10 times faster with no agro. Seeing this people will never recommend any luxury EV except a Tesla.
From this experience I can see people returning their cars as they can barely make it anywhere in the country and with how often the stations are broken you have a very high risk of being stranded somewhere. I just can't see a reason to buy any expensive electric car that isn't a Tesla as they charge faster and the chargers actually exist.
TLDR: Travelling the UK in an Audi e-tron i could only charge at 10kW and could see Tesla's chargers working flawlessly as i waiting for hours and talked to tech support. The best advert for Tesla is having any EV that isn't one.
