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I drove an EV for three days. It saved me money but cost me time (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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My problem with articles like these is that I can point out all the issues:

Charging turns out to be fiddly and time-consuming.

No it's not

There's no tap-and-go option, and I need to scan a QR code, download an app, and set up an account. It takes me another 10 minutes because the verification email never turns up.

Yes the FIRST time, this is like saying an iphone is difficult and time consuming... because you have to set it up first

There's no tap-and-go option

You mean this? https://evie.com.au/autocharge/

Just plug in. No app, no tap.

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The NRMA recommends charging "to 80 per cent unless more range is absolutely needed" as a courtesy to other drivers.

So what did he do? Like a typical petrol driver he:

But for this experiment, I charge from 46 to 100 per cent. It takes about an hour.

._.

This is the thing, if I know he's done a shit job on something I know about, how badly are they writing about topics I don't know about?

Thanks for nothing

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[–] 6 points 6 months ago

UK we have tap and go because the government legislated that they needed to support contactless payment with normal bank cards, its pretty much everywhere now. This happened due to the over proliferation of apps causing nothing but complaints.

We do have some semi universal apps, like the Octopus Energy one or Zap Map, those work with a huge number of chargers now, but no reason to ever worry about the app unless they offering a discount on the pricing over contactless.

We are starting to even get chargers and cars that work the same as Teslas do with Tesla chargers, just plug in the car and off it goes no need to even tap and ago, its annoying it has taken this long for other manufacturers as Tesla has had it for ages on their own chargers.

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