ECP Heathrow North - EV Bays - DEFENCE STAGE

Coupon-mad

"I guess that the 'elephant in the room' question is; was the vehicle charging during that time?"

Except that wasn't pleaded in the POC!

🙂

yarpsnehpets

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82038685#Comment_82038685

Not sure that's true.

POC specifies "vehicle parked in a charging bay" - they may claim that an electric vehicle is 'parked' in the bay if it is not charging.

I'm just playing devils advocate here purely to point out that the defence of 'my car is an electric vehicle' does not defend the claim purely because the it's an electric vehicle. 'Parking' and 'Charging' may well be considered different activities?

Umkomaas

Parking' and 'Charging' may well be considered different activities?

At what point does ‘charging’ become ‘parking’. Most motorists while charging their cars go for a coffee/meal break, during which time the charge might complete (and the indicator light on the charge pump changes colour) meaning the car no longer under charge. Does it then immediately become ‘parked’?

That indicator light could be a parking gimp’s dream!

yarpsnehpets

Agree 100% and that is exactly went on in a so called 'Park & Ride' car park in my local town.

The car park is next to the railway station and encourages people to park there in order to take the 20 minute train ride to the city centre.

The car park has many EV bays - loads and loads.

But the operator started dishing out tickets to vehicles which remained in charging bays after charging was completed.

This defeats the object of the car park since people who were charging while they were at work started getting PCNs. Most people who go into the office obviously do so for around 8 or 9 hours meaning that charging generally finished before they returned to collect their vehicles.

fivestarsamz

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82037711#Comment_82037711

I could not really find much information online. I found this https://www.ev-point.com/locations/heathrow/ it does not really have any terms and conditions or any information about how long the parking is there for. Other than an icon saying "Free parking."

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82038057#Comment_82038057

The driver was charging the car throughout the time they were at the location.

Coupon-mad

"I could not really find much information online. I found this  https://www.ev-point.com/locations/heathrow/  it does not really have any terms and conditions or any information about how long the parking is there for. Other than an icon saying "Free parking."

Errrm… you realise that's your silver bullet?!

The EV charging firm leases that bay so they have title in that parcel of land. They advertise and make a clear offer 'free parking' without caveat, for those EV owners who use their bays to charge. The parking firm have no remit over leased EV bays.

fivestarsamz

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82039973#Comment_82039973

Great, i will use that point as my point 3B in my defence XD