Guide to Charging Networks (and questions about CYC)

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Ceebl

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Hi,
Sorry completely new to the EV world.
I've googled and I just can't find any decent guides.
I've read pages and pages and watched countless videos.
Nobody actually explains anything in laymen's terms.
Zap Maps' guide doesn't really help so can I just ask a few questions.

RFID cards, Is it like....i get one and they all recognise it?
Do i need one for every different service?
How do I know how much points charge?
A lot on zap map say

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So...its free?
Or i need a membership for it to be 'free'

I signed up for a Charge Your Car account and it charges by....direct debit?
So it comes out when I charge immediately? Or its a monthly thing?
I ordered an RFID card but no money's come out of my account and the website really tells me nothing.

So generally i'm supposed to rock up to a charger and have to spend the first 10-15 minutes signing up to whatever service it is?
Are all the websites/apps as bad as CYC's?

Is there just an easy guide for someone who literally knows nothing?
That covers things like service providers, costs, how you actually pay
 
Sounds like you are in the UK?

Hopefully someone there will chime in. Things are much different depending on location for this sort of thing.
 
I'm not in the UK so I'm just reading ...

Energy, time and parking are free, but you pay 1 GBP to start a session unless you have a BP membership and use that to start the session
 
Just give us a couple years, when Trump gets his second term, Greenland will be the 52 state, then the UK is the natural 53rd state... a reverse merger of sorts.


Then we will all come under the same standard currency.. probably the Peso.

I'm guessing we will ditch both metric and English units and come up with something better.

Perhaps we can call it the British-American Foot Unit, or BAFU.



And then, and only then, can we have a common charging standard.
 
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