5th Day Glasgow - Edinburgh. 1,200 Mile Road Trip Around Great Britain in an all Electric FIAT 500

I'm driving 2,000km/1,200 miles around Great Britain with my family in my all-electric city car, the FIAT 500e. Join me as I travel from Glasgow to Bathgate via Falkirk, The Queensferry Crossing and South Queensferry
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[@derektaylor6713]

I'm not well genned up with electric as most people aren't but all this watts and amps and different charging rates and the like will be beyond most people. One chap has put a video on RUclips about a home charger he had fitted by a company. Unbeknown to him, they informed his energy supplier who then wrote to this chap saying they wanted to inspect his house and check whether the cable going to it was big enough. As it turned out - it wasn't, so at great pains, they had to install a new bigger cable. Wow, this is bad. So this could apply too for 'anywhere' that wants to install a public charge point or many points. Will the supply cable be big enough? Take Tebay services for instance. When we were there in our huge range motorhome (diesel with ad blue) there were just two public charge points. But there was notice that almost boasted they were going to add another six!!! Really. Bigger supply cable nedded? In fact I think that just installing a few charge points here and there is no good at all. They would need a hundred charge points if everybody was in EVs and imagine the size of cable required if all those were being used. The mind boggles. Another good video though.

[@theweekthatis]

All good points. For most people though, a 10A charger would be fine, as in essentially a three pin plug. And 95% of driving miles can be covered in this way. It's a small minority of long distance journeys that need rapid charging. The cable doesn't need to be 'bigger' but rather a high-voltage connection is used with a transformer. The biggest challenge to EVs will be transformers...
However there are plenty of solutions to all these problems, watch this space!