EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025

https://lemmy.world/post/2135755

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025 - Lemmy.world

I’m a bit skeptical about it really working on large scales during summer holidays. Aren’t EV supposed to charge for at least 30 minutes 1 hour minimum to be able to get some autonomy? How is that realistic with such a high number of vehicles?

Our EV6 should be one of such newer models. We just did our first holiday trip with it from Belgium to Brittany. Some key points to note;

  • it’s 20 minutes up to 80% on fast chargers. The remaining 20% is an additional 20 minutes
  • sometimes there will be no free charger and other cars are NOT fast charging
  • while the range was quoted being 480km it’s closed to 320 with a vehicle full for a 2weeks trip with and additional car roof luggage
  • you also need charge at destination. Our last leg was on smaller roads with less chargers

In addition with 2 kids it makes sense anyway to pause for 30mins every 300km or so. For us ot was a pleasant experience all in all.

Interesting, thank you for your feedback! I guess my main concern is about having enough chargers to be able to charge all the vehicles at one. Having so many cars stuck for 20 minutes isn’t the same deal as filling them all in 5 minutes or so.

At least here in my region, most charging parks have somewhat between 10 and 40 chargers. Small stations 4 or 5.
I never had any issue finding an empty slot - the trick is to plan ahead a tiny bit and to have enough power left to drive to the next charger, worst case.

Also, chargers post their status online, so my car knows ahead if there is a free slot - and can change the route accordingly.

so.... certain countries in Europe do trains AND EV charging better than the US - love that