I was looking for somewhere suitable for my trip to Surrey and back, which after trying once already I knew couldn't really be done without a charge. Anyway, as it happened I decided to try the new Ionity super-duper high power chargers at Cobham services on the M25. I thought I would be boycotting Ionity completely, since they want to charge an insane 69p/kWh, but having looked on Zap-Map, lots of recent users were reporting that these are currently "free-vend".
Turns out they are completely free right now (although they seem to be limited to about 32 kW output for now, which is actually fine for the e anyway)!
Only had 7% charge when pulled up to the charger!
I was actually really please with the charge speed, partly because of the terrible performance I'd seen on Bjorn Nyland's videos. I got 32 kW for a good chuck of the charge up to 60-something%, the 21 kW for the remainder. I pulled 17 kWh in the 32 minutes I was plugged in for, which when you consider I went from 7% to 70%, means the car was totalling the equivalent of 27 kWh @ 100%. This is assuming the display value is the energy delivered to the battery, not the energy used by the charger. If it's the latter, then the car after a cold wet motorway run is really only offering close to 24 kWh!
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