One of the negative comments made about the Alternative Energy Racing at Santa Pod was that we spent all day breathing in the toxic diesel from the generators and it did nothing to improve the image of our diesel powered electric cars with the public
Personally I would like the show grounds to install permanent charging for EVs but that's not easy when even Formula E aren't interested
Completely agree that charging off generators is rather self defeating, and real chargers attached to a mains supply would be most sensible. However, as an interim option, it would allow a greater range of EV users to attend events.
Even it they only offer 3.3kw (16a) charging posts, you would have though that an even that is supposed to keep you busy for 6 hours would be able to offer the facility to get a decent charge into an EV without too much trouble.
Baby steps at a time, whilst we slowly build out an EV charging network to rival the number of Fuel stations that we have. Destination charging removes the need for rapid charging, but for locations without destination charging, then a well spread network of rapids is the only way forwards. At the minute, it seems the destination and rapid networks are growing, but at a fairly slow rate.
Although maybe its the same rate as petrol stations when ICE vehicles were first released... ?
Maybe there is a deal to be done with someone like Ecotricity rolling out a mass number of 32a charging stations to showgrounds. Just need to get a sensible charging point manufacturer on board
