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London to Glasgow
Journey type: Intercity travel along major motorways
Distance travelled: 405 miles
Time journey time: 8 hours
Time spent charging: 1 hour during the trip and 1.5 hours upon arrival
Number of stops: 2
Key issue: Interoperability.
- You need to download and register on 5 separate apps before leaving to ensure you have the ability to charge and pay at different charge points along the way.
- If it takes you 15 minutes to download and register your details on one app, then this means you have to spend over an hour downloading and registering on apps before your journey even begins.
Click the arrows to walk through each step of the journey from London to Glasgow
Imagine you live in London and are looking to travel to Glasgow for the COP 26 conference in November. You live in a house with a drive, so you plug your all-electric Jaguar I-PACE car overnight the night before. It takes just under 13 hours to fully charge, so you wake up to a fully charged car in the morning with a range of 292 miles.
You look up your route on Zap Map to check the charging stations before you leave and make sure you’ve downloaded the apps for all of the charging points you plan to use along the way, including:
- Ecotricity/Gridserve
- BP pulse
- Shell recharge
- Ionity
- ChargePlace Scotland
After 156 miles you stop to charge near Stoke-on-Trent with 48% charge.
There are 8 50 kW rapid chargers in the area along your route - your app shows you that 2 are out of service and 1 has a car currently charging at it, so you have 5 rapid chargers to choose from.
You choose a charge point just off the A50 with a fast food restaurant on site. You leave, go inside and have some lunch as your car charges. A half hour later you come back and your car is back up to 75% charge (219 mile range).
You continue your drive North and stop again after another 160 miles (now at 19% charge) in Gretna Green.
There are two rapid chargers available at a hotel. You go inside for a cup of tea while your car charges.
A half hour later your car is back to 46% charge (136 mile range) - more than enough to get you the final 83 miles to Glasgow.
There are around 60 chargers in central Glasgow (14 of which are rapid chargers).
You drive to a car park and plug into a slow charger so your car can charge over night without you having to worry about coming back to move it later in the night.