Cptncanary
Standard Member
Yesterday, I drove to Birmingham and back from north Hampshire. My first challenge was getting the Blink app to recognise that I'd connected it to my car, as that was the charging solution in my car park of choice. Having locked the car and walked away, I found 4 hours later, that it had stopped charging within a couple of minutes.
On the way home, I pulled into Warwick services and tried CCS charging from the Gridserve and Applegreen machines, neither of which would connect to the car. I limped to Oxford, where I tried again with Gridserve, with no success. I called the MG roadside assistance. Whilst waiting (now 02:00 GMT), I thought I'd try again, and the CCS charging started to work.
I'd read the many comments regarding holding/ pushing the connector whilst the machine initialised, but not sure if that's the trick which worked for me. I suspect that the car didn't like to charge immediately after a long journey (or at least an hour each time). It's fine at home, but out in the field (to paraphrase Gary Moore and Phil Lynott), it seems to be a different story.
I'll be performing my own tests over the coming week, to prove or disprove my theory.
On the way home, I pulled into Warwick services and tried CCS charging from the Gridserve and Applegreen machines, neither of which would connect to the car. I limped to Oxford, where I tried again with Gridserve, with no success. I called the MG roadside assistance. Whilst waiting (now 02:00 GMT), I thought I'd try again, and the CCS charging started to work.
I'd read the many comments regarding holding/ pushing the connector whilst the machine initialised, but not sure if that's the trick which worked for me. I suspect that the car didn't like to charge immediately after a long journey (or at least an hour each time). It's fine at home, but out in the field (to paraphrase Gary Moore and Phil Lynott), it seems to be a different story.
I'll be performing my own tests over the coming week, to prove or disprove my theory.
