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Public EV chargers- is there a knack?
- Thread starter HellsBells
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Dave Herbal
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I’ve just parked in a car park with loads of chargers, but they’re all in disabled bays. Does that mean that non-disabled folk aren’t allowed to use them then? Seems a bit discriminatory
Doubt it.
Dave Herbal
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I don’t dare park there in case I get fined though.
Signs should be clearer.
On another note, I just used a 50kw pod point and it worked superbly.
Pod points are great. Except the one near my Mam’s house which the local kids smashed to bits and PodPoint won’t now replace. Hope the little bastards get what’s coming to them.
Can you send a photo of this disabled bay or tell us where it is so I can check it out on maps?
Dave Herbal
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Isle of ManPod points are great. Except the one near my Mam’s house which the local kids smashed to bits and PodPoint won’t now replace. Hope the little bastards get what’s coming to them.
Can you send a photo of this disabled bay or tell us where it is so I can check it out on maps?
rudd
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Sunderland Royal disabled bays in front of A&E are the same.Pod points are great. Except the one near my Mam’s house which the local kids smashed to bits and PodPoint won’t now replace. Hope the little bastards get what’s coming to them.
Can you send a photo of this disabled bay or tell us where it is so I can check it out on maps?
Popped the car on charge at a rapid point and walked 15 to the shops. Just got a notification my charge ended suddenly.
Some cheeky **** has just ended my charging session to put his car on.
Some cheeky **** has just ended my charging session to put his car on.
I assume you can end his when you get back to your car? As well as leave something smeared on his “petrol” cap too?
I checked the notification. Stopped charging. I checked the charge point app - CCS off, Chademo currently charging.
Got here and there’s no car and hasn’t been any other car. Chademo lead still in the machine.
Restarted the charging and it went off after a minute, charging unit must just be fucked. Have to say, I am yet to find a single charge provider other than PodPoint that isn’t useless.
Billy Fish
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When they're changing they're locked in aren't they? Someone else can't just disconnect.
That’s what I thought. I checked the app as I walked back to the car and it said my CCS charge had stopped and the Chademo port was in use, so naturally I assumed someone had started a Chademo charge and stopped mine.
Think the machine is just fucked. Most of them seem to be. Found another one mind.
Mine is locked but I’ve heard stories of people disconnecting some.
I wonder if pressing the big red button unlocks the charger too
I can lock mine from my car.
Ah but I mean if someone pressed emergency stop, would the cars charge port unlock?
Not sure.
Jaguar doesn’t it only unlocks the charge port when you unlock the doors. Otherwise if you were using a 7kw jobby overnight someone could hit the red buttton and walk off with your £150 cable to sell at the market.
I don't know about the charger end but if using say a type 2 cable the car has to be unlocked before being it can be released. I regularly use the 50kw charger at Morrison's in doxy its a Geniepoint never had an issue with it other than when some cock parks his car across both bays like
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Did anyone see that thing on channel 5 tonight?
Massively critical of the charging infrastructure
www.express.co.uk
www.express.co.uk
Massively critical of the charging infrastructure
Electric car: EV charging ‘not where it needs to be’ as driver pays for no charge | Express.co.uk
ELECTRIC vehicle infrastructure is 'not where it needs to be' according to the Under Secretary of State for Transport, as a new TV programme analyses how the UK will adapt to an electric future.
www.express.co.uk
Electric car: Drivers face charging costs of £1,000 a year as 2030 target is 'unrealistic' | Express.co.uk
ELECTRIC car drivers face huge costs if they do not have access to driveways, as one expert claims the 2030 goal of installing EV chargers will fall far short.
www.express.co.uk
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