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.

I have a Tesla Model 3 since 4 years, did 90K km.

Exactly same experience for me, we travelled across France several times and never had issues regarding charging or battery anxiety.

As we also have kids, we stop every ~2h30 and charge during that time.

France is nice for that. Also for their food but that’s unrelated 😅

In Belgium the stupid ass decision to give tax credit to companies that installed chargers is resulting in an over abundance of slow chargers that can hardly be used while charging stations are less plentiful. It’s bugging me to no end 😩

Belgium and tax credit, name a more iconic duo (I grew up in Belgium)