fnegroni
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210 miles mostly motorway trip today from London to the Peak District.
Planned a mid way stop to refuel our bodies, recharge the battery and empty our bladders.
On paper Gridserve Watford made perfect sense: at the M1 services, plenty of chargers, all 150kW + , what could go wrong?
Arrived with 48% battery, but Only four out of the seven chargers were working. Even the one in the disabled bay wasn’t. And a queue of three cars waiting in line. I’m also wondering if anyone was trying to charge past 80% because some were still charging 45 minutes later ?
Anyway, decided to stop a few miles later with under 30% remaining at an MFG charging forecourt: 7 charging bays, 7 combined chargers (chademo/ccs2) all working, all 150kW.
A bit expensive at 79pence per kWh, Charged 14.5 kWh in 12minutes at average 70kW to around 55% which was enough charge to get to our destination and just enough time to pay another visit to the loos. A nice site, with a canopy to protect us from the elements.
Manage to get to Morrisons in Chesterfield just in time for a last minute Christmas groceries shop
I remembered they had a charger and thought better charge a little so I we can go straight out for Sunday roast later without fuffing about with the destination pod point charger.
Lo and behold the GeniePoint charger, without me pressing anything, somehow went through the rfid card detection and CCS2 plug selection process all by itself and started to charge without me doing anything. Maybe a glitch?
since it was essentially free charging I charged from 26% all the way to 95%, all in the time it took us to do our Xmas shop. It only charged at 42kW but kept the rate from 26% to about 65% when it then dropped to 24kW up to 90% and then 14 kW to 95% , which was the moment I finished loading the boot with the shopping.
We got to our final destination after the pub lunch with 71% battery charge left.
All in all, 210 miles mostly m25 and m1 at 3.5 miles per kWh average, in normal mode with A/C set to 24°C and cruising at 60 for half of it, and 65-70 for the second half on motorways.
Planned a mid way stop to refuel our bodies, recharge the battery and empty our bladders.
On paper Gridserve Watford made perfect sense: at the M1 services, plenty of chargers, all 150kW + , what could go wrong?
Arrived with 48% battery, but Only four out of the seven chargers were working. Even the one in the disabled bay wasn’t. And a queue of three cars waiting in line. I’m also wondering if anyone was trying to charge past 80% because some were still charging 45 minutes later ?
Anyway, decided to stop a few miles later with under 30% remaining at an MFG charging forecourt: 7 charging bays, 7 combined chargers (chademo/ccs2) all working, all 150kW.
A bit expensive at 79pence per kWh, Charged 14.5 kWh in 12minutes at average 70kW to around 55% which was enough charge to get to our destination and just enough time to pay another visit to the loos. A nice site, with a canopy to protect us from the elements.
Manage to get to Morrisons in Chesterfield just in time for a last minute Christmas groceries shop
I remembered they had a charger and thought better charge a little so I we can go straight out for Sunday roast later without fuffing about with the destination pod point charger.
Lo and behold the GeniePoint charger, without me pressing anything, somehow went through the rfid card detection and CCS2 plug selection process all by itself and started to charge without me doing anything. Maybe a glitch?
since it was essentially free charging I charged from 26% all the way to 95%, all in the time it took us to do our Xmas shop. It only charged at 42kW but kept the rate from 26% to about 65% when it then dropped to 24kW up to 90% and then 14 kW to 95% , which was the moment I finished loading the boot with the shopping.
We got to our final destination after the pub lunch with 71% battery charge left.
All in all, 210 miles mostly m25 and m1 at 3.5 miles per kWh average, in normal mode with A/C set to 24°C and cruising at 60 for half of it, and 65-70 for the second half on motorways.
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