In the absence of an MG app I think it’s always good to set a timer on your phone to remind you when to return to your car. Don’t forget there are also excess standing charges on some charges Which aims to prevent misuse. Tesla use excess charges too.
This what a good hearted EV owner do, they would return and move their cars.
However, what I have seen on a regular basis, is PHEV’s plugging into a 7kw post at a shopping centre and leaving it there ALL day.
Either shopping or maybe an employee of the shopping centre.
I have no problem with people using the charging posts, but as we all know, the empty to full capacity on a PHEV battery is only about 3 hours.
So fine, come and move your car so somebody else can grab a much needed charge.
I have also witnessed cars plugged in, but not pulling a charge, just to try and justify the use of the EV space !.
Do they not understand that other EV owners can tell when these type of stupid tricks are done ?.
This sort, have no intension of setting a reminder on their phones, so they can return and move the car.
They must arrive for work before the shopping centre opens and claim the EV bay and chargers, before anybody else can arrive.
On a few visits pre C19 - I made a quick mental snap shoot of the cars using the chargers, a few weeks latter when we returned, the same cars where in the very same EV bays !.
Two BMWs ( One black / One Dark Grey ) and both PHEV’s.
Both still there when we returned some 4 hours latter.
The charging must have completed hours ago, the selfish buggers !.
I would not mind, but there was over 200 spare parking spaces just 100 yards away.
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