Electric Car Charging and parkingeye overstay at Lidl

B789

Keep_pedalling said:
Many of Lidl’s chargers are still 7kW chargers.

Maybe, but the one at that location is a 50kW Rapid charger.

Un0riginal

B789 said:

Keep_pedalling said:
Many of Lidl’s chargers are still 7kW chargers.

Maybe, but the one at that location is a 50kW Rapid charger.

Because the vehicle's max range is only 140 miles .. but that drops rapidly as soon as you hit the motorway and the journey was 110 miles, and the range really cannot be trusted anyway. So wanting to get it to 100% to give the chance of actually getting to the destination without having to stop again, unfortunately as soon as it gets to a certain point the speed of the charge drops off a cliff. A few weeks prior had about 12 miles left and it just shut down, had to get it towed to a charger, I had planned to stop and get food at the next charging point which was 2 miles away. 

B789

Un0riginal said:
Because the vehicle's max range is only 140 miles .. but that drops rapidly as soon as you hit the motorway and the journey was 110 miles, and the range really cannot be trusted anyway. So wanting to get it to 100% to give the chance of actually getting to the destination without having to stop again, unfortunately as soon as it gets to a certain point the speed of the charge drops off a cliff. A few weeks prior had about 12 miles left and it just shut down, had to get it towed to a charger, I had planned to stop and get food at the next charging point which was 2 miles away. 

That would have really cheesed me and many other EV users off. Even with a small battery the time to charge from 20% to 80% would be shorted than from 80% to 100%. It is incredibly poor EV etiquette to leave a car on a Rapid charger beyond 80%-90% charge because of the drop-off.

Un0riginal

B789 said: 

That would have really cheesed me and many other EV users off. Even with a small battery the time to charge from 20% to 80% would be shorted than from 80% to 100%. It is incredibly poor EV etiquette to leave a car on a Rapid charger beyond 80%-90% charge because of the drop-off.

If that is something you deeply wish, then I will allow it, but maybe just this time, so, I graciously allow you the permission to be cheesed off vicariously, however, it is preposterous to suggest that many others would share your predilictions as firstly there were 2 charging spots, and secondly there was nobody else there for the entire time.   

Un0riginal

Thank you @Coupon-mad and @Fruitcake appeal has been upheld and charges dismissed. 

Umkomaas

Un0riginal said:

Thank you @Coupon-mad and @Fruitcake appeal has been upheld and charges dismissed. 

Well done. Was it your appeal to PE which was successful, or to Lidl?  Can you let us see the appeal you wrote please, as this will be useful to others, particularly Lidl EV charge point overstayers, we are getting a few such cases lately?

Un0riginal

Umkomaas said:

Well done. Was it your appeal to PE which was successful, or to Lidl?  Can you let us see the appeal you wrote please, as this will be useful to others, particularly Lidl EV charge point overstayers, we are getting a few such cases lately?

I appealed it on both the driver having a blue badge, and that charging the car is not the same as parking (quoting the relevant section in the case details that Fruitcake had given). They only mentioned the blue badge in their response so I suspect they didn't want to even give credence to that element.