New Charging Stations

Well, not new but now open to the public and cheaper

I’ll be using one at Arnold Clark’s in Ayr later today (I hope).
Last time I rocked up there having prebooked as required it wouldn’t let me charge - all the units were empty and available but I was 15 minutes too early. I had to wait til my allotted time.
The previous attempt to book and charge went fine until I actually arrived at the 24 hour chargers to find they had just locked the main gates.
I bought my Berlingo from Arnold Clark’s and the sales guy was keen to push these chargers but of course they’re never where Ive needed them in many instances.
I’m not therefore a huge fan other than they’re a wee bit cheaper - still not as good as my go to charger of choice -Tesla where available.
 
I’ll be using one at Arnold Clark’s in Ayr later today (I hope).
Last time I rocked up there having prebooked as required it wouldn’t let me charge - all the units were empty and available but I was 15 minutes too early. I had to wait til my allotted time.
The previous attempt to book and charge went fine until I actually arrived at the 24 hour chargers to find they had just locked the main gates.
I bought my Berlingo from Arnold Clark’s and the sales guy was keen to push these chargers but of course they’re never where Ive needed them in many instances.
I’m not therefore a huge fan other than they’re a wee bit cheaper - still not as good as my go to charger of choice -Tesla where available.
It says on their app that you can just rock up and use any free charger so maybe worth trying that and avoiding the you are too early situation.
 
It says on their app that you can just rock up and use any free charger so maybe worth trying that and avoiding the you are too early situation.
I’ve just arrived two minutes late and the chosen charger told me that and won’t be persuaded otherwise????
So I’ve had to move to another of their three chargers which has a card payment screen and it’s now charging 🙃
 
I’ve just arrived two minutes late and the chosen charger told me that and won’t be persuaded otherwise????
So I’ve had to move to another of their three chargers which has a card payment screen and it’s now charging 🙃
Lengthy fafftrying to start a charge using my card but eventually the charge started and fairly poured power in right up to 60 % where I had ample to get home.
I could NOT persuade the darned thing to stop whatever I tried. Eventually a lassie was heading back to her office and helped by phoning the service dept who shut the charger off remotely (at 85%). They are having ongoing problems with the chargers on most of the sites. I wasn’t impressed - good fast charge but I would rather have been in control of time and cost.
Quite good coffee from their machine in the lounge afterwards though.
 
Lengthy fafftrying to start a charge using my card but eventually the charge started and fairly poured power in right up to 60 % where I had ample to get home.
I could NOT persuade the darned thing to stop whatever I tried. Eventually a lassie was heading back to her office and helped by phoning the service dept who shut the charger off remotely (at 85%). They are having ongoing problems with the chargers on most of the sites. I wasn’t impressed - good fast charge but I would rather have been in control of time and cost.
Quite good coffee from their machine in the lounge afterwards though.

Look for an emergency stop button next time you have that issue.
 
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