Charged extra for charging the car

ComicGeek

ElefantEd said:

ComicGeek said:

ElefantEd said:

astroL said:

There is no confusion. They had an external charger for the first charge, and the car recorded about 1.5kwh. Next day they only used the portable charger providing 0.5kw (power) and I abandoned it after a nominal time, noting that the total power accumulated from the 'hotel' was about 3kwh.  I did not measure the actual times of this very slow charging but the car's records showed the total energy received. £10 was accepted for the 3kwh - as I explained.  Tesco's chargers provided 7 dropping to 3 or so over the various two hour sessions, with no stress.

Lawrence

Once again you have confused your units: 3kwH is the amount of energy you have accumulated - not power. Power is the rate at which energy is accumulated (Energy per unit time, usually measured in this context in kilowatts). Your original post was confused because you said that Tesco charged at 5kwH instead of 1kwH - both of these are measures of energy, whereas I presume you are making a comparison between the rates at which the car charged.

Obviously it's the total amount of energy (kwH) that you accumulated which is relevant to how much you should pay, and I totally agree that £10 for 3 units is absurd. Not sure why you paid even the £10, if it wasn't mentioned in the contract, and particularly if the charger wasn't working I wouldn't have.

It's not kwH- it's kWh. If you're going to be so pendantic to pick up the OP on energy/power, then at least get it right yourself.

It seems to me that in a discussion of energy costs, where charging rates are also mentioned, the difference between energy and power is significant. Unlike an uncapitalised letter.

However if you want to complain about someone being "pendantic", you could either define this interesting new word, or alternatively, at make the effort to spell 'pedantic' correctly.

It's obviously a technical term that you aren't aware of - it's where 2 (or more) lighting pendants are installed in the rooms, and they aren't exactly aligned, but it's only noticeable to someone with serious issues.

retiringtoosoon

ElefantEd said:

ComicGeek said:

ElefantEd said:

astroL said:

There is no confusion. They had an external charger for the first charge, and the car recorded about 1.5kwh. Next day they only used the portable charger providing 0.5kw (power) and I abandoned it after a nominal time, noting that the total power accumulated from the 'hotel' was about 3kwh.  I did not measure the actual times of this very slow charging but the car's records showed the total energy received. £10 was accepted for the 3kwh - as I explained.  Tesco's chargers provided 7 dropping to 3 or so over the various two hour sessions, with no stress.

Lawrence

Once again you have confused your units: 3kwH is the amount of energy you have accumulated - not power. Power is the rate at which energy is accumulated (Energy per unit time, usually measured in this context in kilowatts). Your original post was confused because you said that Tesco charged at 5kwH instead of 1kwH - both of these are measures of energy, whereas I presume you are making a comparison between the rates at which the car charged.

Obviously it's the total amount of energy (kwH) that you accumulated which is relevant to how much you should pay, and I totally agree that £10 for 3 units is absurd. Not sure why you paid even the £10, if it wasn't mentioned in the contract, and particularly if the charger wasn't working I wouldn't have.

It's not kwH- it's kWh. If you're going to be so pendantic to pick up the OP on energy/power, then at least get it right yourself.

It seems to me that in a discussion of energy costs, where charging rates are also mentioned, the difference between energy and power is significant. Unlike an uncapitalised letter.

However if you want to complain about someone being "pendantic", you could either define this interesting new word, or alternatively, at make the effort to spell 'pedantic' correctly.

If yur going to pick someone up about being pedantic, then you could at least proofread your own post and use correct punctuation and not miss words out.
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ElefantEd

I can see this goign on for some time!

Appliance_engineer

It isn't pedantic to point out that there is a difference between charging rate and the amount of energy transferred. It is kind of central to the whole point of the original post.