There are plans to build an 800-vehicle charging hub in Edinburgh. It will be the largest in Europe. It is to be built at Edinburgh Park, in the west of the city.
How would this operate in practice? Do 800 drivers need divert from where they really want to go to a location they dont want for the sole purpose of charging their cars? Assuming they dont chose a time when 801 cars are trying to charge, causing traffic chaos, and the 800 chargers are not suddenly down at the same time because of a power outage, computer crash etc causing not only chaos but a real dilemma for hundreds.
I assume you wont be able to park on a charger all day ,or long enough to do useful things ,so you wait there doing nothing for as long as it takes to charge, before driving to your actual destination . With the temptation 800 spaces will be deducted from parking spaces in town for non EV's and charged cars and those that remain are less likely to get their own chargers. I'm sure locals wont be happy if you cant get parked in the west of Edinburgh while a significant number of those 800 spaces go unused.Will they then allow non Evs to park, wasting the installation of chargers and infrastructure that could have been better placed elsewhere.
There may be a reason others are not planning hubs this big.