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Dec 6, 2018 17:35:38 GMT
Post by WDB on Dec 6, 2018 17:35:38 GMT
The i3 got its first taste of 50KW last night, outside a hotel in Basingstoke.  It took the battery from 68 percent to full in barely the time it took us to get inside and make tea. I should probably have gone back out to unplug it and even move the car. But it was late, it was raining, there were two spaces and no sign of anyone else needing to use either. So we went to bed. When I went out in the morning, the cable had been nearly stowed and the socket covers reinstated by unseen hands, so I presume the car releases the plug when charging is done. I imagine a hotel elf did the rest. I did move the car to an ordinary space before going back in for breakfast. |
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Dec 6, 2018 17:39:11 GMT
Post by Humph on Dec 6, 2018 17:39:11 GMT
More to the point, what possessed you to sleep in Basingstoke?
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Dec 6, 2018 17:47:52 GMT
Post by WDB on Dec 6, 2018 17:47:52 GMT
Concert at the Anvil last night. And a convenient place to meet my Southampton-based financial adviser this morning.
Hadn’t been to the Anvil for years. Remarkable venue for a middling town, but my god it’s ugly inside! Where big-city concert halls have plush red seats and wood-panelled walls, here we have British Rail Navy blue and walls painted in five shades of 1990s-remaindered lipstick, grading upwards from what might be papaya to something more like failed blackcurrant mousse. And no ceiling at all, just girders and exposed cables. Best to listen with eyes closed..
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Dec 6, 2018 20:40:01 GMT
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Post by dixinormus on Dec 6, 2018 20:40:01 GMT
Didn't know that there were hotels in Basingstoke!
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Dec 6, 2018 21:20:51 GMT
Post by Humph on Dec 6, 2018 21:20:51 GMT
Certainly didn't know there were any you could stay all night in...
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Dec 6, 2018 23:32:50 GMT
Post by Rob on Dec 6, 2018 23:32:50 GMT
When I had a test drive in a Passat GTE, the charging cable could not be removed whilst the car was locked. I'd have thought that was standard on plugin hybrids and electric cars. Surprised the cable could be disconnected.
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Dec 7, 2018 6:20:17 GMT
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Post by WDB on Dec 7, 2018 6:20:17 GMT
So was I, because you can’t release the cable of our home charger without unlocking the car. Nor could we when we used a public 7KW AC charger at the Barbican. (Actually had to find an elf to release us that day!)
I suppose it might be a safety feature of the high-current DC charger. Or something attended public chargers allow to prevent hogging. Don’t know.
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Dec 7, 2018 9:33:10 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 9:33:10 GMT
I wouldn't go quite so far as to call Basingrad a middling town.
I shall probably get a few free electrons at Heathrow tomorrow morning. I'll need to be in a short stay car park for a bit, which is expensive but at least there are free-to-use Pod Point chargers to use whilst I'm in the terminal building.
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