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Charging this week

I was in the office three times this week, and I was able to park and charge my car three times to 100%.

What I did find interesting was the different predicted ranges I got after each charge.

After the first charge the predicted range was a healthy 185 miles

The second time I charged the range had dropped to 162 miles.

Third charge resulted in a range of 177 miles.

I am not entirely sure why the variety. The journeys before charging were very similar, some urban, some motorway, some normal roads.

I find it interesting, as in itself, it creates future challenges when planning journeys with charging breaks. Would 160 miles from a full charge be pushing it too far for example?

I will continue to monitor the ranges as I charge.

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8% charge

I hadn’t planned to go right down to a 8% charge, but circumstances resulted in the Funky getting down to an 8% charge before I could get to a charger.

Not entirely accurate as I did get to a charger, but that didn’t work out.

So what’s the story?

The car had a 19% charge this morning with a predicted 34 mile range.

Decided to try out the free charging capability at Asda in Clevedon.

Both bays were free.

Needed the BP Pulse App to connect and charge, so that took some time.

First attempt failed.

Second attempt did work.

Really, really slow. After 15 minutes the car had charged an additional 2%. So much so that decided to abandon the process.

Did think about heading to Gordano Services and using their Gridserve chargers, but with just 14 miles to the office and a predicted range of 26 mile, I thought I would just go straight to the office.

I arrived with just 8% charge left and a predicted range of zero! Put the car on charge.

Some time later I was at 100% and a predicted range of 175 miles.

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Mer

At The Campus in Weston Village they have a couple of EV charging spaces. One is reserved for local authority vehicles, but the other is available to any EV users.

It is a Mer charger, and as with most (if not all) fast chargers, you will need to bring your own cable.

I used my Shell RFID card. It is a fast AC charger. It was a simple matter of connecting the car, tapping the card reader and letting it charge. I was connected for two hours and it added about 50% to the charge.

Nice and easy.

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Also not working

When I was considering an electric vehicle, I was concerned about where I could charge the car. Having failed to use the chargers at Queensway in Worle, I had seen that there electric charging points in the Carlton Street Car Park in Weston-super-Mare.

You can imagine my disappointment when I headed into town to to park at the Carlton Street Car Park and use their charging stations and they weren’t operational. There was no indication why they weren’t working, and no information on if and when they would be operational again.

So, I drove round to Tesco and parked in their car park instead.

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Couldn’t get them to work

When I was considering an electric vehicle, I was concerned about where I could charge the car. I had seen electric charging points around Weston, including some in the Queensway shopping centre in Worle, next to Aldi.

On a shopping trip I had planned to use these charging points. They did not work with my contactless debit card. However, despite downloading an app, I couldn’t get them to work. 

Having spent too much time trying to get them to work, I gave up and headed off to park in a “normal” space.

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First time charging

Drove to work today in Funky and at work set the car to charge. This was not as simple and as easy as I thought it was going to be. I think this was partly as it wasn’t as simple as plugging in the cables and the car charging. However I got there in the end. I didn’t though manage to get to a 100% charge.