[electric_dreams]

This popped up in my Google news feed.

Visitor to Hove dismayed by lack of working electric car charging points

Charging points for electric cars seemed to be in good supply in Hove but the reality left a visitor from Berkshire feeling flat. Anna Polizio-Broom found all the chargers that she tried to use were broken, non-existent or unavailable due to parked cars. Before heading from Sunningdale to see...

www.brightonandhovenews.org

 

[Spec555]

Yes I was looking at available rapid chargers round Brighton the other day, only about 3 usable and not central, there's far more around Portsmouth, Southampton etc. I was surprised by this since Brighton is supposed to be such a 'green' city.

 

[Eclectic]

Yes I was looking at available rapid chargers round Brighton the other day, only about 3 usable and not central, there's far more around Portsmouth, Southampton etc. I was surprised by this since Brighton is supposed to be such a 'green' city.

Like a lot of Councils, they are only "Green" when someone else is paying!

 

[Geoff_S]

Margate is not too clever either.

 

[jonsel]

We have a flat in Hove. EV charging is hopeless across the whole city. One old rapid at the Withdean Stadium, a few unreliable fast chargers and a couple of lamp post chargers that you can't get to because the parking isn't allocated for EVs. Fortunately, we were able to install our own one in our parking space at the flat, otherwise it would be pretty difficult.