Tesco PodPoint charging to begin
Discussion
I use the 50kwh at at the local one sometimes and notice the normal 7-22kwh chargers are always full, often with the same cars with at least one being left overnight. Have also seen people park cars and people pick them up.
Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
South tdf said:
I use the 50kwh at at the local one sometimes and notice the normal 7-22kwh chargers are always full, often with the same cars with at least one being left overnight. Have also seen people park cars and people pick them up.
Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
When I pass them, there is quite often someone sat in the vehicle reading a book/paper or using a computer (British Gas men doing paperwork), obviously the business model of trying to encourage footfall into the store isn’t working. How do you leave the car overnight, round me there is a 3hr limit on the car parks, unless you have a blue badge in some of them?Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
I was at Tesco last night shopping and when I arrived all the chargers were in use. Waited a bit and got on a 7KW, in the 1 hour I was charging 4 other cars came down looking for spaces.
The one charger behind me was a tesco employee who parked up charging and went to work. One fella was sat in his car for the whole time I was there, clearly not shopping, a fella appeared on a bike, put it in the back of his e-Tron and then drove away.
Charging will hopefully stop some of the nonsense.
The one charger behind me was a tesco employee who parked up charging and went to work. One fella was sat in his car for the whole time I was there, clearly not shopping, a fella appeared on a bike, put it in the back of his e-Tron and then drove away.
Charging will hopefully stop some of the nonsense.
C.A.R. said:
The silver lining is that this will definitely stop the tw@ts with PHEV's hogging the 7 / 22kW chargers whilst charging at a measly 3kW.
My local 50kW is probably the public charger I use most frequently; at 28p / kWh it was pretty cheap. That'll almost double, eek.
I bet you drive a Leaf... My local 50kW is probably the public charger I use most frequently; at 28p / kWh it was pretty cheap. That'll almost double, eek.
Evanivitch said:
I bet you drive a Leaf...
Nope, although there's nothing wrong with a Leaf if it suits your needs?J210 said:
As I a tw@t in a PHEV im not clearly not special enough to be able to use them...
Quite. Some people are self-aware, but others are taking longer to get the message.If you can only trickle-charge and occupy a space at a busy location which could be 'fully' utilised by a better equipped EV with a faster AC on-board charger, that does indeed make you a tw@t. Fortunately I'm sure this change in costs will put off all but the most determined PHEV owner.
C.A.R. said:
The silver lining is that this will definitely stop the tw@ts with PHEV's hogging the 7 / 22kW chargers whilst charging at a measly 3kW.
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ks will it. What it will stop is people charging when they don’t actually need to - which is likely to actually be large battery BEVs with smug “charges for free on my solar panels innit” owners. PHEVs and small battery BEVs arguably best placed to benefit from the increased availability.
We live 50m from a Tesco so have abused their free chargers a few times.
It has clearly become unsustainable and needed to happen although a 1 or 2hr time limit supported by ANPR could have done the trick.
There's a Tesla at our local one that really does take the piss. >8hrs parked atleast 3 or 4 times a week.
It has clearly become unsustainable and needed to happen although a 1 or 2hr time limit supported by ANPR could have done the trick.
There's a Tesla at our local one that really does take the piss. >8hrs parked atleast 3 or 4 times a week.
South tdf said:
I use the 50kwh at at the local one sometimes and notice the normal 7-22kwh chargers are always full, often with the same cars with at least one being left overnight. Have also seen people park cars and people pick them up.
Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
Unless they are on zero range which can't be typical I can't understand the logic of someone with a full EV even bothering with the typical Tesco 7 kWh Pod Point just to have the few miles of range they will get even if they drag their shopping time out to a couple of hours.Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
Whilst for me in my Kuga PHEV a few extra FREE miles on top of my virtually unlimited ICE range is very useful.
I won't bother if I have to pay.
Actual said:
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Whilst for me in my Kuga PHEV a few extra FREE miles on top of my virtually unlimited ICE range is very useful.
I won't bother if I have to pay.
But they don't. They do what my missus did from time to time.South tdf said:
I use the 50kwh at at the local one sometimes and notice the normal 7-22kwh chargers are always full, often with the same cars with at least one being left overnight. Have also seen people park cars and people pick them up.
Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
Unless they are on zero range which can't be typical I can't understand the logic of someone with a full EV even bothering with the typical Tesco 7 kWh Pod Point just to have the few miles of range they will get even if they drag their shopping time out to a couple of hours.Hopefully this will leave chargers for people that need them but in most cases 7kwh is not going to be much use to most people.
Whilst for me in my Kuga PHEV a few extra FREE miles on top of my virtually unlimited ICE range is very useful.
I won't bother if I have to pay.
Plug in and disappear for the day. Worth £15 a charge so if like us you live less than 1 min walk away it makes sense.
Offset the £230 ish a week we give Tesco but clearly taking the piss.
C.A.R. said:
The silver lining is that this will definitely stop the tw@ts with PHEV's hogging the 7 / 22kW chargers whilst charging at a measly 3kW.
Opps, in my previous post I quoted the wrong poster.I would say that the free Tesco 7 kWh Pod Point charger is perfect for my tw@t Kuga PHEV.
The Kuga PHEV is supposed to charge at the full 7 kWh when available but you might be right and the Kuga may only draw a measly maximum 3 kW.
I also wonder if when there are 4 vehicles charging at a Pod Point location then is it possible that the charging throttles back and it doesn't share the full 28 kW that should be available?
ChocolateFrog said:
We live 50m from a Tesco so have abused their free chargers a few times.
It has clearly become unsustainable and needed to happen although a 1 or 2hr time limit supported by ANPR could have done the trick.
There's a Tesla at our local one that really does take the piss. >8hrs parked atleast 3 or 4 times a week.
No doubt this car belongs to the store manager lolIt has clearly become unsustainable and needed to happen although a 1 or 2hr time limit supported by ANPR could have done the trick.
There's a Tesla at our local one that really does take the piss. >8hrs parked atleast 3 or 4 times a week.
PeterGadsby said:
It’s obvious what they should have done.
I wonder why the company that are absolutely at the top of their game regarding customer loyalty data and have a wholly owned subsidiary providing services in that field to other retailers haven’t thought of this obvious thing? 
Toaster Pilot said:
PeterGadsby said:
It’s obvious what they should have done.
I wonder why the company that are absolutely at the top of their game regarding customer loyalty data and have a wholly owned subsidiary providing services in that field to other retailers haven’t thought of this obvious thing? 
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