270 - The Season 14 Mid-Season Round Table Episode
About this episode
A lively mid-season roundtable dives into EV charging challenges, focusing on overstay fees and charger bay blocking. Laura Husswick-Wilkes and Dr. Ewan McTurk share real-world examples, debating whether overstay fees encourage good habits or are cash grabs. They explore the complexities of charger site selection, dwell times, and the impact on driver behavior. The discussion also highlights issues like EV drivers 'ghost charging' and ICE vehicles blocking bays, stressing the need for clear signage, fair penalties, and better education. The episode wraps with insights on battery recycling and renewable energy trends.
In Episode 270 Gary has another mid-season episode where he invites a couple of guests on and they discuss topics of interest .
In this episode we discuss:
- Charger blocking and what to do about it
- Overstay fees and whether they are good or bad
- Charge point location and why poorly located chargepoints can be an issue.
Guests this week include:
Dr Euan McTurk is a Consultant Battery Electrochemist who has been working on - and driving - electric vehicles since 2009. Having worked on next-generation cell chemistries at the University of Oxford, developed ways to study how electric vehicle cells fail and how to stop them failing (at WMG, University of Warwick) and built up a state-of-the-art 200 kW battery test facility in Edinburgh, Euan founded Plug Life Consulting, which provides technical, strategic and public outreach services to projects involving battery electrochemistry, electric vehicles, energy storage systems and charging infrastructure. Euan is also the creator of Plug Life Television, a YouTube channel on batteries and EVs that explains complex electrochemistry in a way that anyone can understand, and busts common myths and misconceptions about electric vehicles.
Laura Hustwick-Wilkes is the operations manager at fleet roaming provider Paua.
The EV Musings Podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the go-to app for EV drivers, helping you find and pay for public charging with confidence.
Links in the show notes:
- Solar overtakes gas to become Hungary's second-largest electricity source - Our World in Data - Cool Thing
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