It appears that recargo (as a charge point finder) is gone. It now routes you to plugshare. I hope, Bruce, that your sites are listed in plugshare.
Peri -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin WINLOW Sent: 15 January, 2014 9:38 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] 2 Fully Electric Bus Routes in the UK - And Collecting'New' EV Bruce, Cripes. Thanks for the warning. Ditch recargo, then! Perhaps Kevin Sharpe (of ZCW) would like to comment on that issue too?! MW On 9 Jan 2014, at 18:03, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > I already completed formatting that newswire for posting and have it > queued for later as EVSE newswires do not get too many read hits. > It is queued to be posted because it is a point on the EV historical > timeline. Each day brings new changes ... So even if a newswire I post > does not get too many reads today, it will be useful info in the future. > > I plan to post it along with a Utility complaining that > wireless/inductive charging is less efficient. Some of the complaints > from the Utilities have been odd (they say one thing, but really have an > unspoken motivating agenda). Perhaps the large amount of power demanded > by a bus is once again making Utilities put in more infrastructure that > they would rather someone else pays for. > > ... > Be careful Martin, I spent a huge amount of time porting EVSE locations > to recargo, just to have them delete them (huh?!? ... all that work > gone). Their management has a different way of thinking, which still > does not explain why when both recargo and plugshare are owned by the > same person, their databases are not synchronized. Duplicity, and > fraught with errors of old sites that I could not get them to remove: I > gave up on trying to make them better. I still use plugshare to look up > items. > > I hope all your efforts with openchargemap.org remains productive even > into the future, and are not lost like all mine were with recargo. > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > - > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014, at 08:26 AM, Martin WINLOW wrote: >> Came across this today... >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25621426 ... and having watched that >> video, the BBC kindly recommended this one from last year which I had not >> heard about either... >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18409830 >> >> And on a (semi) unrelated matter... I'm off to Taunton in Somerset >> tomorrow to pick up a used Mitsubishi i-Miev (a Peugeot-badged version >> called the 'Ion'). Ex-lease with only 3.4k miles, registered in July >> 2011. It is 200 miles away so it's going to be interesting - something >> of a road trip. In planning it, I discovered there are rather more >> ChaDeMo charge points in England than I had heard of, mostly due to >> Ecotricity's quite aggressive installation program. They have about 70 >> throughout the UK, most in England. Map here .... >> http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/for-the-road/our-electric-highway >> >> Quite why no other charge point map has all these ones on is a mystery. >> I see Kevin Sharp of Zero Carbon World, who runs the openchargemap.org >> web site, has posted on the EVDL recently... perhaps he can answer that >> question? >> >> Meanwhile I am laboriously transferring all the ecotricity charge points >> I can find onto openchargemap.org's map. Quite why some government >> lackey hasn't done it already is a puzzle. As it is I now have 6 charger >> maps I have to trawl through! > - > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
