Tim O'Neill

@AutoPap Use the Zapmap pricing filter...

You can't own an EV without a home charger. FULL STOP. Public charging is a rip off which negates the point of having one. Dealers need to be more transparent about this before they take your money.

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS *whatsoever

@EVTim84 @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS With an avg of 2.6 chargers per location in the UK and 30% not usually functioning (as per AutoTrader), that means only 1-2 working chargers per station. With each vehicle needing 30-60 mins charge...this has been a massive issue.

UK to miss 2030 electric car goals with chargers 'not as reliable as a petrol station' gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars…

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS Did some digging, found the AT article you mention, go back a few layers and the source appears to be this electricaltimes.co.uk/why-are-so-man… Read that and you'll see there is no explanation what so ever about how they got to 30%! Also the article is 3 years out of date🤦🏻‍♂️

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS Exactly. Not sure why that would be a problem? If someone goes to a charging location and one connector isn't working but the others are then they can still charge. Agree that some networks are better than others, hence why the PCPR regs came in.

@EVTim84 @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS Your map is a little disingenuous. Green tick doesn't mean they're ALL working. It means at least ONE is working. So when you see all those red crosses on your map, they are 100% not working, while some of the green ones - are also not working.

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @GBNEWS Still waiting to be told which town or city. As another example if you want to play that game here is Bristol (data thinning applied so all locations won't be present at that zoom level), see ratio of green ticks to red crosses

@DanielBaines123 @TheFox89688362 @EVTim84 @GBNEWS Someone told me this last night and challenged me to check Zapmap. 30% of chargers within 15miles were out of service.

Hundreds of licences granted for new North Sea oil & gas projects under the Tories have so far produced just 36 days’ worth of gas. Yet more evidence that a crisis caused by fossil fuel dependence can’t be solved by drilling for more fossil fuels in N Sea theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS Do you mean connector or charger? Which city?

@EVTim84 @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS Yes. That is my experience of 4 years owning an EV. I just searched further afield. In the nearest City, at least 60% of locations had at least one out of service charger. So whether out of service, or 100% in use while people shop/eat, it *can be near impossible to charge.

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS And that's a good representative sample of the whole of the UK infrastructure?

@EVTim84 @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS Lol! That backfired. I decided to play along. Two nearest locations: 1st: 1 charger - 1 operational 2nd: 2 chargers - 1 operational / 1 out of service 33% of chargers within 15 miles out of service.

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS Ah you did use Zapmap. You'd surely know reliability is high then - just look on the map at say 20 random locations. I'd love to know what methodology AutoTrader used.

@EVTim84 @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS How do you think I found 4 public chargers?

@KeepItDownNews @DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS Really!? Did you not check Zapmap then?

@DanielBaines123 @GBNEWS I think that genuinely (other than Motorway), 20-25% of chargers I try are out of order. One journey alone, 3 entire locations out of use, leaving me with just 3 miles left of range by the time I reached my last hope.

@AugusteCom30151 @ReemAmirIbrahim So the private companies that drill it can sell it on the international market!?

@ReemAmirIbrahim It’s insane that we’re not passing emergency measures to do this already.

Britain should drill North Sea oil & gas!

@KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 Also, I run my heatpump very early in the morning with underfloor heating, on my very cheap night rate (that just went down to 5.5p/kWh. Same with the EV actually!

Rubbish EVs are more expensive to run than ICE cars almost all the time particularly if you can't charge at home I can fill my ICE car in bare minutes, and drive for hundreds of miles before filling up again. I can put the heating or ac on, the stereo, the heated seat and steering wheel, the windscreen wipers and any other thing and not worry about the impact on my fuel level And I can do so knowing that my car doesn't contain highly polluting materials such as rare earth magnets I am a bit annoyed the government takes half what I pay at the pump in tax but I don't have to worry about being charged for every mile I drive the way EV drivers do (or will soon) And heat pumps are straight up more expensive because electricity is more expensive so unless you home is extremely well insulated which most aren't, it costs more to run

If you want to help bring down fuel costs for others, reduce demand. Oil is priced globally. More drilling here doesn’t stop price spikes. EVs and heat pumps already cut UK fossil fuel use by 14 million barrels in 2023. So the most effective thing you can do: Switch to an EV and / or a heat pump if you can. Every switch cuts demand, eases prices, and improves energy security. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. 🇬🇧#EV #HeatPump #CostOfLivingCrisis 🇬🇧

@KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 Please see here for a detailed analysis that gets updated each month, like most things it's a nuanced argument - UK EV charging price index: average cost per kWh | Zapmap share.google/sC68ImOBmwDygE…

@donjo65_ @GBNEWS 5.2pkWh from 1st April here, so my running costs are actually going down! 🙌🏻

@GBNEWS Wait till they find out you have to pay for electricity too, and it’ll probably be as high as fuel soon

Electric car interest soars 36% as drivers scramble to ditch petrol and diesel vehicles over fuel costs gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars…

My Tesla has driven us over 500 miles today without me ever needing to touch the steering wheel. It’s honestly just normal at this point. Tesla Self-Driving is the greatest technology.

This is sensible from Labour BBC News - Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

BREAKING! FSD Soon in Europe! Netherlands April 10 Target + Massive Tesla Testing Proof! #Tesla #FSD

Meanwhile, Octopus just halved the cost of charging 🤣 #winning

@BobFromAccounts Sensible, in Bath parking is done based on CO2 output

In a word, no.

Left the Zapmap office today to get the bus home and had the joy of choosing an ICE bus or a electric bus, no prizes for guessing which one I went for 🤣