Not a PlugShare glitch, apparently there really are 6 different EV fast charging sites in one services on the A303, just down the road from Stonehenge.
Tesla have a site with 16 plugs there, GRIDSERVE are there too with 8 CCS2 plugs, and the Costa, McDonalds, Harvester and Holiday Inn all have 1 or 2 plugs of their own.
This is the best charging setup I've come across so far in the UK.
With these Smart Charge chargers you just need to tap a credit card to start the charge, at which point a QR code is briefly displayed on screen which you can use to access a web page to monitor the charging session or retrieve a receipt.
Like the Ionity chargers you get charging session monitoring without needing to install an app or create an account, but the Smart Charge chargers are even quicker and simpler to use because you can pay by tapping a credit card instead of having to use a web payment portal.
Had a most un-Australian problem this morning while leaving our rental flat in Coventry: the car's boot was frozen shut. I had to go get a spatula from the kitchen to pry it open.
Another charger, another charging app I can't install because my home address happens to be outside the UK.
It is undeniably a good thing that most chargers in the UK can be used simply by tapping a credit card. No need to install an app, create an account, order an RFID card, or have internet access at the site.
It's undeniably a bad thing that this is often the only option available to visitors to the UK, because it leaves them with no way to monitor the progress of a charge while away from the car, increasing the risk of overstaying at the charger.
You can't use the car's app to do this if you have a rental car, because when you're not the owner you can't use those apps. That leaves the charging company's app as your only option, except it seems that a lot of the companies operating in the UK have set their apps as UK only in the Google Play Store. That doesn't restrict the app to people who are *in* the UK (which would make some sort of sense), it restricts the app to people whose home address is in the UK, which seems utterly pointless.
So far I've run into this with both GRIDSERVE and ChargePoint, and I strongly suspect there will be more. The only charging app I have been able to use is Tesla, because that one is international.
Anthony Horton