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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 13:57:03 GMT
Where do you charge to get your power for £0.00, lygonos? I'm sure you've said but I can't remember.
Public chargers are free to use in Scotland to encourage uptake (other than £20 annual fee for the RFID card).
You can pay for Ecotricity and Polar but much less of them up here, although Polar are starting to pop up in many ASDA carparks.
chargeplacescotland.org/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 14:04:50 GMT
Free charging, free University tuition...........I often wonder why I stay down here, then the wife sees the weather forecast for Scotland and in go the heels. I'd go in a heartbeat if it weren't for that, and not wanting to uproot the children.
Weird that you have to pay for a card to access a free service. Surely nobody who hasn't got an electric vehicle would get any use out of the chargers, so what's the point of the RFID card?
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 14:11:30 GMT
Weird that you have to pay for a card to access a free service. Surely nobody who hasn't got an electric vehicle would get any use out of the chargers, so what's the point of the RFID card?
1. Stops the Do-What-You-Likeys hooking up and never moving (cheers Otto)
2. To enable future price-charging to work - I have an account with chareplacescotland detailing the numerous charges I have used - all priced at 0.00 per unit.
3. RFID cards don't need a mobile signal unlike an app based system
4. My understanding is they are trying to sort out a country-wide system so that a single card or App will be all that is required to use anyone's machine (a bit like LINK for cash machines)
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 15:29:34 GMT
Just all seems quite "hard" really. Too hard. So, one morning you get up, the other car has already left, and you discover that you've forgotten to charge up the milk float...it has 20 miles range left and you need to be somewhere 30 miles away. Can't just go and slosh some fuel in and be on your way can you?
Buggered then really aren't you?
Too hard.
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 15:44:58 GMT
Too hard if you're a dribbling retard I guess, which I'm not (yet).
Plugging the car in takes all of 30-40 seconds.
Never had the scenario you suggest above in past 3 months, but then I don't have any risk of being called out without notice, or need to drive a few hundred miles a day on a regular basis, and have 60+ miles every morning as I can charge during my lunch break whenever I want.
I'd be more concerned about finding the car with a flat tyre as there is no spare.
And if I needed a quick extra 10 miles of range it takes my slow-charge car about 15-20 minutes to add from an 11kW charger (a rapid charge capable car like the LEAF could do that in about 3 minutes from a 50kW DC charger)
Try not to spill your concentrated piss in your boot when the Adblue light comes on 
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 15:54:02 GMT
Still too hard. Then there's power cuts. Hadn't thought about them eh? When we lived in the Borders they were quite common. Buggered then too aren't you? Hard.
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 16:03:03 GMT
About as frequent as a turbo or other mechanical problem perhaps?
Guess what - I can drive outwith the Borders and recharge (only had 1 brief powercut in 5 years and that's when the 100A main fuse ion our cottage burned out - dude thought it was at least 40 yrs old)
The longer it takes for people to take up leccy vehicles, the longer I get free fuel at their expense.
Win-win.
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 16:07:47 GMT
Aye, but, one night you'll get pished and forget to plug it in. You will. Law of averages. See if I'm not right. Buggered then.
Too hard.
😂
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 16:13:04 GMT
If I'm that steamin' it'll be a taxi the next day anyway  |
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 16:28:46 GMT
Wonder what's going to be wrong with Al's ?
There'll something you'd think.
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 16:31:24 GMT
Emissions failure at its first MOT I bet.
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 17:04:05 GMT
No, I can see it now, it's 11.00 at night and the leccy car has about as much power left as a post-coital Duracell bunny, and it's howling it down with rain, so you're going to think, "I'll just have to pop out and plug that ruddy thing in, but I'll maybe have a mug of tea until the rain goes off"...Zzzzzzzzz
Next morning..."Aw shite!"...
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 17:08:03 GMT
Free fuel at your expense...... |
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Post by Humph on Sept 8, 2017 17:11:59 GMT
Talking of free things, I was speaking to a pal who lives in Edinburgh yesterday, he turned 60 this year. Has a very successful business with George St offices don't you know etc...but anyway, he's now got a bus pass that lets him go anywhere in Scotland absolutely free. He's quite impressed by that.
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Post by lygonos on Sept 8, 2017 17:15:46 GMT
Yeah the free bus pass at 60 is an interesting one - likely encourages the old codgers to keep off the roads at rush hour tho.
They are planning to extend it to apprentices it seems.
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