{"id":141927,"date":"2023-10-03T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=141927"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:29:09","slug":"ev-owners-arguing-over-charging-points-because-there-arent-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/ev-owners-arguing-over-charging-points-because-there-arent-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"EV owners arguing over charging points because there aren&apos;t ENOUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Furious EV owners resort to getting up in the middle of the night to charge their cars as fights break out over charging points because there aren&#8217;t ENOUGH of them &#8211; with marshals brought in to police service stations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EXCLUSIVE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drivers at Thurrock services have seen people in spats over charging points\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span><span>Have YOU witnessed any &#8216;charge rage&#8217;?<\/span><\/span> Email matt.strudwick@mailonline.co.uk<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Electric vehicle owners furiously arguing with each other over charging points because there aren&#8217;t enough of them available are having to get up in the dead of night to power up their motors.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the &#8216;charge rage&#8217; that marshals are being brought in to police frustrated drivers at motorway service stations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The boss of Britain&#8217;s largest motorway service provider,\u00a0Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan, said long waits for plug-in points made drivers &#8216;very angry and stressed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Others are so fed up they have decided to ditch the eco-cars and go back to diesel as they are &#8216;easier&#8217; to run with the infrastructure for plug-in vehicles not expected to be ready for more than a decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many electric car drivers were adamant that the north of the country is far worse off in terms of infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>One motorist at a service station told MailOnline: &#8216;Sometimes I get up at four or five am just to charge the car, because I know it would be busy in the day.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old is so fed up he is now taking his second electric vehicle &#8211; an MG &#8211; back, adding:\u00a0&#8216;I am giving it back next week because of the stress. I will go back to my diesel car because it&#8217;s easier.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Have YOU witnessed any &#8216;charge rage&#8217;?<\/span> Email matt.strudwick@mailonline.co.uk\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086537-12585467-image-a-21_1696289088768.jpg\" height=\"511\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Taxi driver Olu Sodipo, 50, drives a \u00a359,000 Mercedes E-van and has seen spats around Heathrow Airport in Shepperton, Surrey\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086535-12585467-image-a-22_1696289100488.jpg\" height=\"411\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Drivers living near Thurrock services near the M25 are seemingly spoilt for choice, as it now boasts three rows of charging points, amounting to around 30 in total<\/p>\n<p>But some residents local to the area surrounding Thurrock services off the M25 say they&#8217;re ditching their electric vehicle as they&#8217;re fed up of having to queue to charge their car.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers living near the services are seemingly spoilt for choice, as it now boasts three rows of charging points, amounting to around 30 in total.<\/p>\n<h3>Have YOU been the victim of a charge rage incident?<\/h3>\n<p>Get in touch at tips@dailymail.com<\/p>\n<p>Locals say it is the only place in the area to have so many, whereas other points in the car parks of nearby supermarkets, pubs and gyms are coveted and occasionally fought over.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Lee, an Uber driver of five years who lives in nearby Grays, Essex says he has witnessed arguments over charging points.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old is so fed up he is handing his second electric vehicle &#8211; an MG &#8211; back in next week after growing frustrated by the lack of infrastructure, says he has woken up in the dead of night to charge his car, instead of risking long queues before beginning work.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-four and grandfather-of-five explained: &#8216;There aren&#8217;t enough charging points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s one in Grays and two near the Sainsbury&#8217;s, so when people say there are taking too long they start fighting. I&#8217;ve not seen it get violent but they argue with each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One time I had to go to Basildon (15 miles away) to charge my car at the BP station there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lee says he has sometimes waited between an hour and an hour and a half to charge his car, due to queues of other electric car drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086533-12585467-image-a-23_1696289110177.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nav, 46, who did not wish to give his surname, said he is equally unhappy with his Volkswagen e-Golf because of how frequently he has to charge it<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086523-12585467-image-a-24_1696289115956.jpg\" height=\"390\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Some charging points &#8211; including the entire back row at Thurrock services, which were only introduced around a month ago &#8211; are exclusively for Tesla cars<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086531-12585467-image-a-25_1696289119993.jpg\" height=\"386\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Locals say the service station is the only place in the area to have so many charging points, whereas other points in the car parks of nearby supermarkets, pubs and gyms are coveted<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086555-12585467-image-a-26_1696289127217.jpg\" height=\"347\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mihai Cascaval, a Romanian taxi driver living in East London, owns a Tesla Model 3.\u00a0He believes problems occur more frequently between drivers of electric cars other than Teslas<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086543-12585467-image-a-27_1696289132264.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The charging points at the Moto Service Station, in Thurrock. But some drivers say they&#8217;re ditching their electric vehicle as they&#8217;re fed up with having to queue to charge their car<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086529-12585467-image-a-39_1696289234542.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086525-12585467-image-m-40_1696289239474.jpg\" height=\"340\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Father-of-three Olu Sodipo (left) has seen many arguments while Nav (right) fears the spats might turn violent one day<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is my second electric car. I had the first one for 11 months &#8211; a Kia Niro. I returned it because of the lack of infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Now marshals are being brought in to police &#8216;charge rage&#8217; rows between electric vehicle drivers as long waits for plug-in points are making motorists &#8216;angry and stressed&#8217;\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;Sometimes I had to get up at four or five am just to charge the car, because I knew it would be busy in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even this one, the MG, gives me 165 miles for a full charge &#8211; but really it&#8217;s about 140 or 150 miles. If you put on the air con it goes right down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am giving it back next week because of the stress. I will go back to my diesel car because it&#8217;s easier.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lee also claimed the charging points often do not work, and says he once waited from 7.30pm until 4.30am just to charge his car.<\/p>\n<p>He also says he has had to queue for around two hours when charging spots are busy.<\/p>\n<p>Nav, who did not wish to give his surname, said he is equally unhappy with his Volkswagen e-Golf because of how frequently he has to charge it.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old has had the car for less than six months and said: &#8216;If you use the heating or the air con, it halves the electricity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A few months ago we went to Wales and on the way there we only had to charge the car once.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086541-12585467-image-a-28_1696289145882.jpg\" height=\"347\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Inderjeet Singh &#8211; a car parking attendant working at the service station &#8211; still believes the infrastructure to support electric cars is not yet present in the UK<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086561-12585467-image-a-31_1696289159369.jpg\" height=\"367\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old says he has never seen the Tesla spots packed, but says some of the other charging points often don&#8217;t work<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086569-12585467-image-a-29_1696289153842.jpg\" height=\"342\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Some charging points &#8211; including the entire back row at Thurrock services, which were only introduced around a month ago &#8211; are exclusively for Tesla cars<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086565-12585467-image-a-30_1696289156807.jpg\" height=\"337\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Many electric car drivers said the north of the country is far worse in terms of infrastructure, and one driver claimed there was only one charging point between Wales and Birmingham on the M50<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086573-12585467-image-a-32_1696289174860.jpg\" height=\"321\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Many electric car drivers were adamant that the north of the country is far worse off in terms of infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But on the way back we had to charge three times because we were coming back at night and had the headlights on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0EV charging points now in home buyers&#8217; top 10 must-haves&#8230; but do they add value to a property?<\/h3>\n<p>Nav added that one time he had been asleep in his car whilst it was charging, when someone angrily snatched the cable from his car and plugged theirs in instead.<\/p>\n<p>He said he believes disputes may become more frequent as the number of people buying electric cars is increasing at a faster rate than new charging points are being set up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven&#8217;t seen any fights yet, but soon, maybe,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi driver Olu Sodipo, 50, drives a \u00a359,000 Mercedes E-van which can fit seven people and drives around 230 miles when fully charged,<\/p>\n<p>He too has also seen spats at charging points around Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-three, who lives in South Ockendon in Essex, said: &#8216;In Shepperton [in Surrey], near Heathrow, there are arguments &#8211; because it&#8217;s right next to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you go there you don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s queuing and who&#8217;s not, so when you try to move into an empty space some people say, &#8220;I was here first!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Other people sometimes mitigate and it doesn&#8217;t get violent, but it does happen.<\/p>\n<p>Mihai Cascaval, a Romanian taxi driver living in East London, owns a Tesla Model 3. He believes problems occur more frequently between drivers of electric cars other than Teslas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086581-12585467-image-a-44_1696289296893.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The boss of Britain&#8217;s largest motorway service provider, Moto, said long waits for plug-in points made drivers &#8216;very angry and stressed&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086547-12585467-image-a-42_1696289283786.jpg\" height=\"394\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charging points at the Moto Service Station in Thurrock, Essex<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086571-12585467-image-a-43_1696289289950.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It is feared the infrastructure needed for the eco-car boom will take another 10 to 15 years in the UK\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76086521-12585467-image-a-41_1696289276947.jpg\" height=\"364\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Tesla owner said the queues for the motor&#8217;s spots &#8216;are never bad &#8211; maybe 15 to 20 minutes max &#8211; but I have never seen disputes around it and I charge my car every day&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Some charging points &#8211; including the entire back row at Thurrock services, which were only introduced around a month ago &#8211; are exclusively for Tesla cars.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0The 30 used electric cars that plunged in price most in the past turbulent year for EV owners<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Cascaval, 33, says it&#8217;s also cheaper for Tesla owners to charge their cars.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve heard about people arguing over charging spots and I have seen people queuing for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But the queues for Tesla spots are never bad &#8211; maybe 15 to 20 minutes max &#8211; but I have never seen disputes around it and I charge my car every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maybe you get it with other electric vehicle owners, but not with Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s much better to drive a Tesla. It&#8217;s 45p per kilowatt &#8211; or between 12 and 4am it could be as low as 20p. It&#8217;s pretty cheap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But the other ones [charging points] are about 80p per kilowatt.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, Inderjeet Singh &#8211; a car parking attendant working at the service station &#8211; still believes the infrastructure to support electric cars is not yet present in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old says he has never seen the Tesla spots packed, but says some of the other charging points often don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76047791-12585467-Moto_chief_executive_Ken_McMeikan_pictured_warned_that_the_UK_s_-a-45_1696289343092.jpg\" height=\"943\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan (pictured) warned that the UK&#8217;s motorway service stations are facing growing &#8216;public disorder&#8217; due to a lack of grid connections preventing him from installing enough car chargers to meet surging demand<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t get an electric car,&#8217; the father-of-four, who lives in Grays, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I will stick to petrol. It&#8217;s not just the infrastructure\u2026 You pay all that money and you could get a petrol car with a good bang to it for the same price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was watching Panorama a few weeks ago and it said we need another 10 or 15 years to get the infrastructure here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Germany is ready and China is ready, but the UK is not even there yet.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Many electric car drivers said the north of the country is far worse in terms of infrastructure, and one driver claimed there was only one charging point between Wales and Birmingham on the M50 &#8211; a stretch of around 77 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel, a 55-year-old father-of-two who transports cars for a living said he hates transporting electric cars as he gets home later due to having to stop to charge up the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He showed the dashboard of the green MINI electric car he was driving, which showed that at 92 per cent charge he had 115 miles in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because I have to charge the car I will be late picking up my next car and late getting home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The number of charging spaces are getting better. It&#8217;s better than three years ago but there are still places where they need more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I came back from Glasgow I waited two hours to put a car on charge for 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s worse in the north. Wales was bad but it&#8217;s better now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span><span>Have YOU witnessed any &#8216;charge rage&#8217;?<\/span> Email matt.strudwick@mailonline.co.uk\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12585467\/Furious-EV-owners-resort-getting-middle-night-charge-cars-fights-break-charging-points-arent-marshals-brought-police-service-stations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furious EV owners resort to getting up in the middle of the night to charge their cars as fights break out over charging points because there aren&#8217;t ENOUGH of them &#8211; with marshals brought in to police service stations EXCLUSIVE\u00a0\u00a0 Drivers at Thurrock services have seen people in spats over charging points\u00a0 Have YOU witnessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EV owners arguing over charging points because there aren&amp;apos;t ENOUGH - Celebrity-hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/ev-owners-arguing-over-charging-points-because-there-arent-enough\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EV owners arguing over charging points because there aren&amp;apos;t ENOUGH - Celebrity-hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Furious EV owners resort to getting up in the middle of the night to charge their cars as fights break out over charging points because there aren&#8217;t ENOUGH of them &#8211; 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