Huge EV charging expansion at Birchanger Green Services near London Stansted Airport
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2024
- I visit the Welcome Break Birchanger Green Services on the M11 near London Stansted Airport. At this services on J8 of the M11, there have previously been 2 Gridserve electric vehicle chargers and 4 Tesla V2 Superchargers. However, this has recently been expanded and there are now an additional 20 Tesla V3 Superchargers and 16 Applegreen DC rapid chargers. This means there are now 44 EV charging bays at this site!
Services address: Old Dunmow Road, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5QZ
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Chapters/timestamps
00:00 Birchanger Green location
00:25 Original chargers
00:40 New chargers
01:30 Applegreen price
01:47 Tesla pricing
02:06 Huge UK expansion
02:51 Outro
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Interesting to see the electric motorcycle charging up......
Yes, you don't see that very often
Nice to see a type 2 connector for us older Zoe drivers still In operation
Yes, we need more AC charging at services. There'a a lot of AC only vehicles on the road.
Finally I will be able to get to Heathrow or London reliable as I've been using alternative routes due to the lack of chargers on the M11
Finally they have more than a few chargers 👍
They just need to resurface the rest of the car park as well!
I always thought it was pronounced 'birch-hanger'. (I'm probably wrong!)
Could be. I'd never even heard of it until the weekend. In a past job, I used to travel all over the UK doing IT installs. I thought I'd pretty much visited every UK motorway station.
I never heard anyone pronounce the 'h' like that but remember this is Essex, the 'h' is pretty much always dropped. Think 'coathanger' but more Essex (coat'anger). Not sure if that is purely the Essex accent thing or simply the fact there is only 1 'h'.
I used the new apple green chargers a couple of weeks ago for my Cupra born, with my battery down at 40% charge & having been driving for a couple of hours I was pulling a disappointing 45-50kw. Luckily we only needed to wait an extra 5-10 mins , following a coffee/loo stop. Very welcome addition to these services, as we use them on a regular basis when heading towards London.
wow that is such good news 👍
Yes its quite an upgrade.
They’re certainly giving us electric vehicle drivers the charging points now!! Birchanger, pronounced Birch Hanger, looks like a good bet when on the M11.
It's BERCH-ANG-ERR - soft g (almost silent) and a silent 'h' - lived round here for over half a century and never heard a local pronouce the h or the g.
Thanks for the video, hope the horrendous roadworks didn't cause you too much trouble.
Thanks.
No, can't remember any roadworks....or at least no hold ups.
AppleGreen have been weirdly inconsistent with their support for CHAdeMO.
In Abington they've installed 8x 250kw Tritium chargers, with both CCS2 and CHAdeMO on both units.
Where as at other sites (e.g. Gretna Green) they've installed ABB units with dual-CCS on ALL the new units and zero new CHAdeMO plugs. Gretna has only 1 CHAdeMO plug and 12 + 3 public CCS + 4 Tesla units. Hopefully GridServe will recognise this and start swapping their dual-charging 50kw units over to have one of each plug at sites with dozens of CCS...
And here AppleGreen have used a third brand of chargers, again fitting them all with just CCS2 (dual-charging units again).
It seems that somebody at AppleGreen has decided that they'll only include CHAdeMO if it wouldn't also prevent a CCS2 vehicle from using a bay due to a lack of CCS2 plugs...
The lack of AC charging is also a major issue too. There's many AC only vehicles on the road. Even in this video, there was a motorbike charging on AC on the Gridserve charger.
With Gridserve loosing their monopoly at Welcome Break services, the lack of Chademo and type2 will be a big issue for many.
It’s a shame about the terrible exit though. I spent nearly 15 mins getting out of there once so now I use trumpington instead
I didn't notice it being any worse than others
@@GoGreenAutosI’ve not used either Birchanger or Trumpington yet , but would definitely ‘trump’ for Cambridge if possible - as the Supercharger network is open to all on that site. I’d need only 15kWh in the battery to get home from there, so definitely just a ‘splash and dash’.
Only tried AppleGreen chargers once and it was weirdly inconsistent in the charge rate it was giving. Going up to 170kW and then dropping to single figures kW the next.
Strange. I've never used them.
I see you miss your Model S, even customised the Model Y colour to the MS green. 😊
Well spotted
Pronounced Birch-hanger
Thanks
Why are there always so many Tesla chargers? Seems like a waste of car park space for only one car brand
Tesla have been opening up their network to all EVs. I believe all the Supercharger network in the EU is now open to all. Currently in the UK, 37 sites are open to all...and growing.
Its pronounced Birch - ang - er.
'ang' as in 'hang'.
so a bit slang like me, dont pronounce the H.
Thanks