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Council adopts new law for more recharging and refuelling stations across Europe (europa.eu)
8 points by ianastacio on Nov 4, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



As a person travelling through Europe with an electric car, the biggest pain point in charging is in countries where there's a need to get off the highway and back (especially in France and Spain where I need to go through 2 payment gates every time I need to charge my car).

There's a clearly defined conspiracy between gas station companies to not install electric chargers on highways in these countries.

As a counterexample, in Portugal and Italy it's quite easy to travel and I never had range anxiety.


I'm confused about your comment on France. This doesn't seem to be a problem when driving from Brussels to Marseille. The toll roads have good facilities, including rapid chargers. Perhaps it's different in the South West?


While most folks won't see these items with regards to 'shore-power' on a day-to-day basis, I find them interesting:

> * maritime ports welcoming a minimum number of large passenger vessels, or container vessels, must provide shore-side electricity for such vessels by 2030

> * airports must provide electricity to stationary aircraft at all gates by 2025, and at all remote stands by 2030

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_power




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