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Reisender
Jan 03, 2019Nomad
We are frequent travelers of Europe and have driven a lot of it. European countries generally have better public infrastructure than anything on this side of the pond and EV charging facilities are no exception. But you have to know where to look and if you are not an EVer you might not even notice it. And remember. just like here, the vast majority of charging is done at home while you sleep although sponsored workplace charging is definitely getting more common everywhere.
Different countries seem to have different approaches to it. Portugal is putting DC fast charging at all their rest stops. Generally speaking their rest stops are way ahead of ours and all have a commercial component to them. Great facilities. Here is a pic or two we took last year.
Air and water stations.
Plug share is handy everywhere in the world. Here are a couple of snaps of just the DC fast charge stations of central europe. Still lots of gaps to fill in. Little by little. i'll be happy when the trans Canada is covered. My guess is at least a couple years yet. BC, Ontario and Quebec are filling in nicely but the prairies...not so much. At some point it will start to affect tourism and then it will fill in quicker. That is a few years away. IMHO
Tesla is still one of the better networks in europe. This is a German travel centre.
Different countries seem to have different approaches to it. Portugal is putting DC fast charging at all their rest stops. Generally speaking their rest stops are way ahead of ours and all have a commercial component to them. Great facilities. Here is a pic or two we took last year.
Air and water stations.
Plug share is handy everywhere in the world. Here are a couple of snaps of just the DC fast charge stations of central europe. Still lots of gaps to fill in. Little by little. i'll be happy when the trans Canada is covered. My guess is at least a couple years yet. BC, Ontario and Quebec are filling in nicely but the prairies...not so much. At some point it will start to affect tourism and then it will fill in quicker. That is a few years away. IMHO
Tesla is still one of the better networks in europe. This is a German travel centre.
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