If your in work often might be OK but tbh I couldn't be bothered with that set up
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I agree, on paper it is workable but the few people who I knew who did this ended up hating the hassle of having to drive to a charger.
It would be especially annoying if you worked from home 2-3 days per week.
It does sound like bad range anxiety. No idea how slow the charger is at work, but he seems to leave it plugged in all day.
That sounds more like the behaviour of some PHEV owners I used to work with, one had an Outlander, and the other three had BMW330e and 530e, every morning they'd plug in to get fully charged with free electricity to get home on the evening - it was good really as the PHEV's were actually being used as PHEV's. The only EV owner at that place had an older 2018 MG ZS, and she would charge it a couple of times a week, usually Mondays and Fridays, I know this as I was the one who had all the charger stats sent to my inbox.
As for hassle, if you have to park your car anyway, I am not sure how much hassle spending 30 seconds extra plugging a cable in is.
I agree if you have to park your car anyway as you're saying, but in his situation, he seems to spend hours at Tesco's car park most weekends only for charging, not shopping or whatever else. He actually ended up getting 2 parking tickets through the post last month for overstaying the 2 hour limit at Tesco's car park on two different occasions of charging
Likely an error of judgement with his timekeeping there, but yeah...
I agree if you have to park your car anyway as you're saying, but in his situation, he seems to spend hours at Tesco's car park most weekends only for charging, not shopping or whatever else. He actually ended up getting 2 parking tickets through the post last month for overstaying the 2 hour limit at Tesco's car park on two different occasions of charging
Likely an error of judgement with his timekeeping there, but yeah...
Doesn't sound right to me - a Tesla does 200 miles, and if he charges it every day at work why would he charge it at the weekend if he's doing 25 miles - just sounds like an idiot to be honest.
Is 25 miles the round commute or 25 miles each way?
If it's each way and the charging at work is a 3 pin hanging through the office window, I can see how it could be cutting it fine, adding say 18kwh per day at work should be OK but if he's preheating etc. going to the gym in the evening, whatever then it might not be quite enough.
If it's each way and the charging at work is a 3 pin hanging through the office window, I can see how it could be cutting it fine, adding say 18kwh per day at work should be OK but if he's preheating etc. going to the gym in the evening, whatever then it might not be quite enough.
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Has anybody else noticed that since Octopus sent that email out about the 6 hour cheap charging that more scheduling is being done outside the 23.30-05.30 off peak? I have seen my car start charging within 5 minutes of plugging it in and yesterday I plugged it in at 11.50 and it was scheduled to start at 11.52 with several slots across the afternoon and evening. By 22.00 it was already charged to the 80% I had set it to. Yes, I have been getting the 7p rate for these daytime charging slots.
25 miles round commute.
He arrives at work at around half 7 in the morning, plugs the 3-pin charger in, walks to the gym and back by 9am to start work, and then leaves it plugged in until 5pm? I leave work at 5pm and usually before him, so how much longer after 5pm it's plugged in for, no idea. That's at least 9.5 hours of charging.
I can't understand it myself to be honest.
He arrives at work at around half 7 in the morning, plugs the 3-pin charger in, walks to the gym and back by 9am to start work, and then leaves it plugged in until 5pm? I leave work at 5pm and usually before him, so how much longer after 5pm it's plugged in for, no idea. That's at least 9.5 hours of charging.
I can't understand it myself to be honest.
This is one of those causation doesn’t equal correlation type scenarios.
I get slots all over the place and always have done, it definitely pays to plug in, particularly if it’s rubbish weather or very sunny (if you don’t have solar yourself…).
They have been changing schedules more regularly more recently but when I say recently, I mean the last 6+ months compared to say 2 years ago.
The massive storm will have been a factor yesterday, there as a lot of cheap electricity around and we were probably paying wind turbines £lol to turn off because there will have been too much wind.
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The wind speeds would have been too high for turbines to operate wouldn't they? I thought anything over 60mph the blades were pitched so they didn't turn.
Thinking about it... I guess there were big chunks of the country with high wind below that threshold.
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This basically.
The wind off the east cost was high but wasn’t really anything to write home about.
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on my phone it brings it to a standstill but that might be something my end.
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on my phone it brings it to a standstill but that might be something my end.
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I dont personally but several of my colleagues have an EV with no charger at home, and just charge at work for free. Most only need to do this once/twice a week, and only use public chargers on big trips, much like us would need to even with home chargers. This obviously depends on distance from work, and range but from what they tell me it can be entirely viable.
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Risky..
We offer free charging in work, but only as long as we can, and people are told that, don’t rely on it being free forever, the government will no doubt intervene at some point, or company finances may change..
That would leave you public charging which is ludicrously expensive and a total faff doing it all the time
Basically, unless I had my own charger, I wouldn’t bother entering into a long term commitment if I may end up paying far more for my fuel with an order of magnitude more hassle.
Yup, there was talk awhile back of rolling out charging infrastructure at work, of course sold as a staff perk but as it turns out more about supporting a potential move to EV work vehicles which hasn't worked out, from what I've heard the current version that is bouncing around consultancy would see staff getting discounted but not free charging. At the time there was a lot of kick back from staff against the money being spent on it over other things as very few staff own EVs outside of upper management.
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Quite a few people at work do this, which was fine a year or two ago..
Nowadays, with many more EVs around, people have to arrive stupidly early to secure a space with a charge point. The spaces with charge points are full all day, every day.
This is the same for me, no charger at home (though I could use 3 pin if needed from garage) - I do get free charging from work and only live 4 miles away, I tend not to do much in the way of long trips for work so for my use case it's perfect, I do have to get to work early but mine is usually charged by lunch so i just leave it for someone else, usually gets taken within a minute of me leaving it, we have about 200 staff on site and about 14 chargers. I've got a Dacia spring at the moment soon to be replaced by a Puma Gen-E
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Did our second public charge in 9 years of EV ownership on Saturday. Wife was running very low on the way home, literally 3 miles short. The closest one to her at her time of need is at the back of a pub, up an unmade road, in an unlit car park. So I went and met her there.
Got there to a very frustrated wife and a big Red Cross on the charger. I used the emergency stop to reset it, and got on the phone to BP Pulse. Thankfully it charged without an issue, from 3% to 10% in just a few minutes.
To our surprise, someone else turned up needing to use it, but you can’t do two cars at the same time.
£3 for a few kWh was a rip off but better than running out and getting towed.
Got there to a very frustrated wife and a big Red Cross on the charger. I used the emergency stop to reset it, and got on the phone to BP Pulse. Thankfully it charged without an issue, from 3% to 10% in just a few minutes.
To our surprise, someone else turned up needing to use it, but you can’t do two cars at the same time.
£3 for a few kWh was a rip off but better than running out and getting towed.