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Facilities at EV Charging locations
When we all drove ICE cars it was very easy when you filled up to check your tyres and clean your windscreen. Most public EV charging stations (Ampol excepted) have no such facilities. Is this an oversight? Should we advocate for air and water to be available near EV chargers? What's the etiquette for pulling into a petrol station to use these free facilities?
NRMA_Paul
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2 years ago
@Oldad that's a great insight there and definitely something that we've seen with Ampol adding charging sites to some of their service stations. I wonder if the addition of facilities such as this, it could potentially cause misuse of EV charging stations by ICE vehicles?
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Adrienne
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2 years ago
Good point! The other thing that is missing at most EV chargers is any sort of canopy for weather protection, and I can't hold an umbrella and wrangle an EV charging cable at the same time, so I keep a towel in the car to dry off if I have had to charge in the rain. I do use petrol stations to check tyres and clean my windscreen (and have a little smile at the fact that I don't have to use the petrol pump).
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