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Exiled Rebel

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Going through the town of Fermoy to avoid the toll is a ball ache. Traffic levels are higher now than they were pre motorway.

You could easily add 20-30 mins to your journey just to "save" €2.30.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122556475#Comment_122556475

There was a discussion on the France thread about how during a busy weekend recently several hubs had queues while others were empty

If I had one fault around EV driving it's about finding decent charging hubs. It's often a case that you'll have a charging app which only shows the chargers in it's network and not others, so you might not even be aware there's another hub less than an hour away

This leads to a sunk cost fallacy where people queue for a hub they know about and won't keep moving because they don't want to risk losing time

Apps like Plugshare are good but you're dependent on the community to maintain them. I've noticed in France this is hit and miss at best

In any case, I don't think apps are the way to go since that encourages phone use while driving

Using the in car satnav is a good option but again you need it to know where the chargers are. My ID.4 for example doesn't know about any Circle K chargers so won't use them for route planning

That's why I think simple motorway signs are the best option. Just a display with something like "EV charging ahead, up to 150kW, 6 available, 4 unavailable, €0.65/kWh, next hub 50km" tells you everything you need to know. There's already similar signs showing the fuel prices on the M1 so it should be possible