I’ve never heard of Village Hotels until now 😂 but it’s always nice to get more sites.

 

Indeed. There will be 65 Ionity sites in the UK total - the existing 22, the 10 variously in construction and the 33 new Village Hotels sites. The rough timetable, if it can be believed, for the Village Hotels sites (compared to the average Ionity construction time in the UK), is very aggressive indeed.

All these sites to be operational by 2024.

 

Ionity York yesterday

(Monks Cross/Vanguard Shopping) right by M&S the guys were jet washing the tarmac so could be very soon

 

Always prioritise Ionity on the peage here find them very reliable😉

 

They are still the fastest and cheapest for me outside of my (soon to end) life-time free supply of Elon-electrons 😅.

 

…plonked by the bypass…

Well that’s good then 🤣

 

Yep that’s why we’re excited! No need for Ionity to do loads of location reserch, that was done by the people who built the hotels, if there is a Village hotel there is is a good location!

 

Village hotels: There's some useful locations for long distance travelling and will help fill the gap before MSAs all have decent charging hubs (2035?).

 

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Village hotels: There's some useful locations for long distance travelling and will help fill the gap before MSAs all have decent charging hubs (2035?).

The majority of those village hotel locations are already fairly well served by charging hubs; there is no revolution here but it'll help to provide extra competition and capacity for more new cars. The Portsmouth one is out on a limb with no other hubs but not sure about any of the others (edit, maybe Blackpool too?)
The new Ionity site that I'm most interested in is Singing Kettle.

 

Blackpool is a charging hole. So a site there will be good. As EV numbers grow having more sites will be useful regardless.

Agreed on both 😜

 

Well, yes, though there are some decent areas around Blackpool and the Cricket ground in Stanley park is decent for the occasional Lancashire match (which happens to be by the village hotel).

 

I will provisionally add the 33 new Village Hotels / Ionity sites below (in alphabetic order) as announced on 12 September. As more details become available I can update / edit this post.
Swansea

Swansea Village Hotel will effectively create a secondary motorway services (though comfortably off the motorway) serving the East side which would be great.
You have the huge Gridserve set up to the West and then you'd have this on the East with a handy Starbucks right next to it (from memory, I think that's still there?).

 

Pity Fort William is not on that list. It was on a previous thread.

I use ionity all the time as I got a year of it at 25p per kWh and now on 31p on Elli.

I have used them for travelling over to Norway and this weekend it’s all I need to get to, South wales and back To scotland. Going to try out the 12 charger Starbucks at Carlisle.

 

Blackpool is a charging hole. So a site there will be good. As EV numbers grow having more sites will be useful regardless.

Agreed on both 😜

When the illuminations are plugged in, there's no spare electrickery left for chargers! 🤪

 

Pity Fort William is not on that list. It was on a previous thread.

I use ionity all the time as I got a year of it at 25p per kWh and now on 31p on Elli.

I have used them for travelling over to Norway and this weekend it’s all I need to get to, South wales and back To scotland. Going to try out the 12 charger Starbucks at Carlisle.

The list in the OP's post is the currently in-construction sites from Ionity own maps, and the announced sites for Village Hotels. It doesnt include planning applications, which I'm assuming hasnt been removed or rejected at Fort William.

 

As far as I know fort William is still going ahead

Not Yet Open EV Charging Hubs - Google My Maps

SITES AT PLANNING OR BUILD STAGE (591) SITES NOT OPEN YET Sites with minimum [6] plugs confirmed When sites open they will be removed and added to Live Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1DOswN-GODssM2XmKV4oQ9r-mkGcbGno&ll=54.832508640477805%2C-3.9358561999999786&z=6

www.google.com

 

As far as I know fort William is still going ahead

Not Yet Open EV Charging Hubs - Google My Maps

SITES AT PLANNING OR BUILD STAGE (591) SITES NOT OPEN YET Sites with minimum [6] plugs confirmed When sites open they will be removed and added to Live Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1DOswN-GODssM2XmKV4oQ9r-mkGcbGno&ll=54.832508640477805%2C-3.9358561999999786&z=6

www.google.com

They better crack on, Tesla just opened up their 6 units at Fort William today to non-Tesla's (amongst also Inverness and Eurocentral). Get the bagpipes ooot 😎

 

I just hope they are putting in at least 8 and hopefully 12+ at each site. A downside of being at a Village Hotel (there is one close by to me in Cardiff) is that there are often gyms/meetings rooms, swimming pools, cafes, restaurants and of course hotel rooms, so I envisage people just plugging in and buggering off for half a day. I hope they have proper overstay charges like Tesla. And I also suspect you will get ICE'ing as well at busier times. Time will tell.
Now I have lost my cheap Ionity deal via Hyundai (25p/kWh) after 2 years, the Ionity price has now gone up to 74p/kWh. OUCH!
Even with the Hyundai based new Ionity contract offer which is 15p/kWh discount which would make it 59p/kWh. But at a cost of £6.99/month. That is a big jump from 25p/kWh.
I am banking on Tesla fitting a lot more of their V4 chargers all over the place for me to use!

 

Elli 1 month contract is £13.99 and 44p for Ionity. I plan to use that after my 12 month contract finishes as they have stopped the 12 month contract.

 

Great news. is there a link to see if any others are open now?

 

Tez or Ionity?

 

Tesla. I found on Tesla’s site that on the fort William chargers it’s open to all but is there an easy way to see all available. Zapmap still has it as Tesla only but Snax’s hub map has fort William and so does ABRP.

 

but is there an easy way to see all available

For Tesla sites it remains the actual Tesla app - under Charge My Non-tesla (and to an extent their website, but that has a couple of "known" missing SuC sites)

 

There was talk recently of Ionity Beaconsfield getting an on site battery to support the grid connection. I rarely saw over 90kw there when I would expect 150kw.
but a mate stopped there in his Taycan last week and got 270kw. Maybe the battery is installed.


As for Blackpool, i was up there in August. Stayed at the Hampton Hilton. Fuuse AC charging in the car park at only 35p kWh. Tram stop right outside.

 

The new Gridserve hubs up the A1 were great for taking my daughter from Hastings to Durham for Uni. A lot of Gridserve and Instavolt Superhubs on the way 👍

 

 

There was talk recently of Ionity Beaconsfield getting an on site battery to support the grid connection. I rarely saw over 90kw there when I would expect 150kw.
but a mate stopped there in his Taycan last week and got 270kw. Maybe the battery is installed.


As for Blackpool, i was up there in August. Stayed at the Hampton Hilton. Fuuse AC charging in the car park at only 35p kWh. Tram stop right outside.

Just stopped at Beaconsfield to charge. Ionity was full so went to Gridserve. Failed after a few percent so moved to the free charger on ionity. 4 cars charging at 67kw (including a Taycan) and 2 in the high 90s at 13kw. No battery then.

Three cars waiting as well.

 

Adding Ayr too

(thanks to a mate on another forum for the heads up).

 

Any more news from York? Believe that site has been ready for a while now. Power issue no doubt.

 

Any news on Leicester ?

 

112 days in, according to this list

Stations Being Built – IONITY CHARGERS

 

To be fair to Ionity, presumably 'they' could also include organisations responsible for grid access and planning permission?

Ionity's website lists 'Westenhanger (Channel Gateway)' in construction for over 3 years! But I thought these were live (services at the end of the M20)?

 

Once the site is listed by them as ‘in construction’ it’s already had all planning approvals done and dusted.

So really down to them for site construction / groundworks etc. and of course DNO / grid conn. from that point forward. They’re probably not going to bother too deep with DNO until they get the planning sorted. So I’d imagine the construction delays are really down to the grid conn and how that’s managed and delivered. Challenging no doubt, as with any operator, some of whom grumble more publicly about it.

 

Doncaster has appeared on the map/list of sites ‘under construction’. Looks like it’s 12 bays at the back of a Holiday Inn just off the A1(M). 23/01036/FUL | Alterations to car park to install EV chargers and associated infrastructure to include substation, LV panels, HP cabinets and lighting | Holiday Inn High Road Warmsworth Doncaster DN4 9UX

 

Cool. Thank goodness they’ve stopped building these ridiculous little 6 bay sites and are now (finally!!) building something approaching adequate capacity.

Ze Germans need to take a leaf out of the market leaders handbook and build 16s and 32s like the yanks.