Airport parking - charge while you travel

[jimKRFC]

I'm heading off for some work travel over the next three weeks and was wondering if anyone knew of a parking company, serving Heathrow, that could charge the car while I'm away?

I should have no issues with range for a round trip, but thought it would be good to collect it fully charged, and not have to think about it.

[SWoll]

A little old now but suggest both Purple parking and Meteor offer an EV charging service and there are pod point charges dotted around the official car parks.

https://www.speakev.com/threads/charging-at-heathr...

[jimKRFC]

SWoll said:

A little old now but suggest both Purple parking and Meteor offer an EV charging service and there are pod point charges dotted around the official car parks.

https://www.speakev.com/threads/charging-at-heathr...

Cheers!

[mat205125]

How much do EVs bleed charge when parked up for a number of weeks? Is that weather and temperature dependent.

[C.A.R.]

mat205125 said:

How much do EVs bleed charge when parked up for a number of weeks? Is that weather and temperature dependent.

According to some bloke in Canada who does YouTube videos, they don't lose charge due to the cold weather alone, they just have less overall range as a result of the cold.

They might lose a bit of power to things like car alarms, I know the Tesla "Sentry Mode" (all cameras record and log detected motion) can use as much as 1-2% per hour if parked in a busy place.

[SWoll]

C.A.R. said:

mat205125 said:

How much do EVs bleed charge when parked up for a number of weeks? Is that weather and temperature dependent.

According to some bloke in Canada who does YouTube videos, they don't lose charge due to the cold weather alone, they just have less overall range as a result of the cold.

They might lose a bit of power to things like car alarms, I know the Tesla "Sentry Mode" (all cameras record and log detected motion) can use as much as 1-2% per hour if parked in a busy place.

Sentry mode is a real vampire if parked somewhere busy and would never use it for long term parking.

We parked our previous i3 for 10 days at the airport back in Sep 2019 and it had lost about 2% on our return.

[Uncle boshy]

Done this twice recently at t5, with purple parking.

Flat £15 to charge, I checked on the car app and they do it just before you pick up.

Arguably a bit expensive for me as my car is only 30kwh battery but good for the peace of mind.