[phil-ev]

The second Kempower location should be going live this month based on their Twitter.

I stopped earlier to check it out.

All the high metal guards have gone and now down to plastic orange ones. Progress 😅

If you're finding it on Zap-map look for Banbury Tesla Supercharger.

The retail park is a bit weak, but fine if you want a Costa / Pizza or KFC whilst waiting.

 

[Johnny Read]

A nice, tidy install. Those units take up a lot less real estate than the usual box chargers. CCS cable looks mahoosive, so could be 350kw? Any idea why the units are on a slant?

 

[motmot]

Superb news! More choice now!

 

[HandyAndy]

...Any idea why the units are on a slant?

It'll make it a bit easier to read the display if your car's backed right up to the s/steel posts!

 

[Stinsy]

Doesn’t look like there are many modules in that cabinet!

 

[AnotherJoe]

NIce, Banbury, perhaps strangely, is becoming a real charging hub what with Instavolt expanding their 8 units to 16 this year.

 

[Utumno]

Be aware that the retail park holding that Osprey install is nearly always an absolute pig to get into from a traffic perspective, particularly at peak times. It’s also a lot further from the motorway than the InstaVolt/Costa hub in Banbury.

Check traffic in Google Maps when trying to get in there is my advice!

 

[Utumno]

NIce, Banbury, perhaps strangely, is becoming a real charging hub what with Instavolt expanding their 8 units to 16 this year.

Not sure what’s strange about it 😀 Banbury turning into a decent charging hub might force EH to actually up their game at both Cherwell and Warwick! 16 InstaVolt stalls literally just off the M40 puts actual motorway charging provision to shame in this neck of the woods.

 

[phil-ev]

so could be 350kw?

Weirdly I think it's something like up to 175kW. But I might be wrong.

I think* it's 7 modules max with 25kW each. If you were the only car potentially it could give 400kW

Basically what should happen is if your car takes 125kW and you're on low SoC it'll assign you five blocks so you can hit the peaks.

As the SoC increases and the car is asking for less it'll drop that to four below 100 then three below 75 two at 50 and leaves one module assigned under 25

 

[phil-ev]

Doesn’t look like there are many modules in that cabinet!

Here's an enhanced zoom with random shopping trolley for scale.

I'm assuming that's 16 modules * 25kW = 400kW

 

[prabhu]

Osprey is super cool. I really hope they don't get acquired by a large oil company and get dumped to the core.

 

[phil-ev]

Duplicate post

 

[phil-ev]

NIce, Banbury, perhaps strangely, is becoming a real charging hub what with Instavolt expanding their 8 units to 16 this year.

They need to sort out their other Banbury charger location at Bannatyne. A4260 route going actually through the town.

 

[Mr_ess_jay]

Great to see extra infrastructure but that car park can be a real pain, especially at weekends and I bet those spaces get ICEd.

There is at least something there which is more than can be said at some other sites.

 

[phil-ev]

Be aware that the retail park holding that Osprey install is nearly always an absolute pig to get into from a traffic perspective, particularly at peak times. It’s also a lot further from the motorway than the InstaVolt/Costa hub in Banbury.

Check traffic in Google Maps when trying to get in there is my advice!

It's such an old retail park that's a bit odd now, and mostly budget stores.

If you don't park in one of those charging bays then prepare to have your car door dinged kind of carpark with narrow spaces and awkward traffic flow.

I guess you can kinda walk over to the Tesco's (6am - midnight) too for some food/drink (there's no proper path)

Kinda fine if you're traveling via Banbury and later in the evening/night.

 

[Stinsy]

Here's an enhanced zoom with random shopping trolley for scale.

I'm assuming that's 16 modules * 25kW = 400kW

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There looks to be 8 modules and 6 stalls. So 320kW if 40kW modules and 400kW if 50kW modules. Not great if a Taycan and an Ioniq 5 are there pulling full whack when you turn up…

 

[phil-ev]

Great to see extra infrastructure but that car park can be a real pain, especially at weekends and I bet those spaces get ICEd.

It has two of these, but I also bet it gets ICE'd too and the gits nipped into the PureGym for a 2hr session. 😔

 

[phil-ev]

400kW for 8 stalls. So 50kW per stall if all are occupied and pulling power. Seems a bit weedy.

I'm purely guessing but I'll try and email them for clarification on what they have installed, and what the max rate is.

It doesn't seem very future proof with modern EVs hitting over 200 peaks

 

[phil-ev]

I'm surprised they didn't choose a location nearer the Gateway Retail park instead but maybe InstaVolt is too much competition.

That one just has two crappy PodPoint destination chargers (one of which is perma-broken) for a massive carpark. There should be at least 20 spaces.

There must be decent power supply here 🤔 would have made more sense to put the Osprey/Kempower here to me.

 

[Mr_ess_jay]

That gateway carpark is even worse in my eyes. The McDonald's clogs up one end and the strange triangle layout clogs the other.