(09-12-2023, 05:47 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:China have a problem with owners dumping EV vehicles now the Govt have dropped subsidies etc...It's interesting [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] I've mates in the UK who are furious about the changes there as well.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-...raveyards/
They invested heavily in EVs as company vehicles on the basis they would be recharging at no cost for life using the M25 supercharge stops, but then the definitions of "for life" and "recharging" seem to have changed.
Now they only can get access to low power slow recharging for free, which means sitting in a freeway hub for 2hrs while your Tesla recharges at a snails pace. If you want to use the superchargers and be gone in 15mins they have to now pay for something they previously got for free! As company vehicles it's obviously untenable to slow charge, and in the meantime all the holiday makers and pensioners fill up the free spots so they have no choice but to pay!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"