I have some, BUT they tend to have some hyper-high costs on certain networks, so on unusual trips I still need a companion app to verify the price of one of the few I have plus the option to register, download the nth crapplication and so on to avoid roaming costs.
Just try ChargePrice somewhere in the EU no matter what charger, you'll find for the same charge an enormous price difference, often more than 4x or even 10x from the cheapest to the most expensive combo of roaming and own network cards. It's a jungle.
Thankfully as almost any BEV owner I do need public charging only for long trips, not frequently, for the rest I recharge at home, but this also means many in cities would simply never get an EV.
Than ad the absurd price delta from the BRICS countries, let's say an entry-level BEV, BYD Atto 3, ~38k€ here, ~9k€ in Thailand, same battery and accessories. For where I live there are enough public charger for essentially all destinations in the region, it's not a matter of mere availability, it's a matter of a awful market on them with absurdly different prices for the same amount of energy (and time, because some chargers have ha connection fee, a time fee and an energy fee together and you have to do a bit of math to find the cheapest if you want) while gasoline/diesel vary just about few cents around a region an not more than ten cents in the whole EU united to such incredible price difference for the car, essentially BEV are a sound option ONLY if you recharge at home 99% of the time and run them at least 20k km/year or more. Witch makes them sound for just 10% or so of the overall population. While at BRICS costs, not just China they probably be convenient for 50-30% of overall population.
Just try ChargePrice somewhere in the EU no matter what charger, you'll find for the same charge an enormous price difference, often more than 4x or even 10x from the cheapest to the most expensive combo of roaming and own network cards. It's a jungle.
Thankfully as almost any BEV owner I do need public charging only for long trips, not frequently, for the rest I recharge at home, but this also means many in cities would simply never get an EV.
Than ad the absurd price delta from the BRICS countries, let's say an entry-level BEV, BYD Atto 3, ~38k€ here, ~9k€ in Thailand, same battery and accessories. For where I live there are enough public charger for essentially all destinations in the region, it's not a matter of mere availability, it's a matter of a awful market on them with absurdly different prices for the same amount of energy (and time, because some chargers have ha connection fee, a time fee and an energy fee together and you have to do a bit of math to find the cheapest if you want) while gasoline/diesel vary just about few cents around a region an not more than ten cents in the whole EU united to such incredible price difference for the car, essentially BEV are a sound option ONLY if you recharge at home 99% of the time and run them at least 20k km/year or more. Witch makes them sound for just 10% or so of the overall population. While at BRICS costs, not just China they probably be convenient for 50-30% of overall population.