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App but it demanded a Norwegian mobile
number.
I then gave up and resigned myself to
paying the Avis penalty charge!
Fortunately, the Avis rep took pity on me.
He said that setting up the first charge
is always very difficult on all the local
networks. He waived the penalty and
charged the Polestar on their own AC
charger free of charge.
From an EV adoption and charger
availability perspective, Norway is
probably 3 years ahead of the UK.
However, the driver’s experiences of public
EV charging is still very poor. My occasional
use in the UK of InstaVolt and Osprey
chargers on contactless have been far
better than my experience in Norway. In
hindsight, I could have used my Tesla App
to charge the Polestar on the Supercharger
hub in Solsvær …. but I was having far too
much fun with Shell and Eviny!
LOYD DAVIES
Service Development Director
at ElectrAssure
www.biz4Biz.org
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