Public car park charging points

Public car park charging points

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Jonsv8

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125 months

Tuesday 12th May 2015
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I'm thinking of making the move to EV and one of the charging options that might work for me is finding public car parks with charging points. I can't imagine they let you park your car in one all day though at a charging point? If nothing else it's a bit anti social. I'm just trying to work out the practicalities of driving to one of the city centre offices I might need to visit where I might be for 5 or 6 hours

Jonsv8

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7,232 posts

125 months

Wednesday 13th May 2015
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Thanks - the anti social bit was if I only needed say only 3 hours charging but blocked the space for double that time. A friend has charging points at his work and its a first come first served thing and they've worked out a friendly system of moving cars at lunch time but thats easier if you know the people. They mostly have PHEVs so don't take forever to top up.

A lot to learn but as I do 25k miles a year, mainly in 200 mile round trips, I can't afford to get it wrong. I'm looking at teslas so the range should normally be fine but sods law will have me doing a 400 - 500 mile circuit over a few days without returning home. The DC charging being added/enabled on the Tesla will make a big difference as a comfort 30 mins stop at a service station will be pretty handy

Jonsv8

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125 months

Thursday 28th May 2015
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Update for others reading, I've been checking out the charging bays at various ncp car parks I use and I'm yet to see a car in a bay and there have been up to 8 bays in one car park. Consequently I dont think parking there all day is an issue at the moment.