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Last week we held a conference at the local University (Nottingham Trent). So being somewhat cheeky, I spotted they had a charger on Zap Map available for visitors, so I went about finding out how to use it.
If I'm honest it was the closest parking space, rather than the need to charge that was the main driver for this. The other reason was to check the viability for other EV users who may be travelling further than I, if we were to use the same venue again.
After a few phone calls between head of car parks, head of security, and finally head of sustainable transport (David Hobden), I managed to get the code to the barrier and arranged to pick up a charge card (apparently a Plugged in Midlands card will work, but TBH I haven't got one as I can't see the point. Ecotricity and ChargeMaster are the only two I really need.)
So I pitched up at the site, picked up the card and found the 2 charge bays. Speaking to David one is frequently used by the on site electric van, and the other rarely used..
Now the fun of getting the Tesla to charge starts. Plug in, flashing lights all looks good. Then I get "stopped charging" almost immediately. Unplug, try again, same problem
By this time I had to go, so I left the car plugged in, and tried from the phone app to kick off a charge, but no joy
I had exactly the same symptoms with my first portable EVSE charger. My new one with updated firmware seems to work fine.
The University were very early adopters of EVs here (running a fleet of Axiam Mega Multivans) So I suspect the chargers are pretty early units too. Maybe this is leading to the incompatibility issues?
Has anyone else found this with their Model S ?
* Edited to correct Kangoo to Axiam
If I'm honest it was the closest parking space, rather than the need to charge that was the main driver for this. The other reason was to check the viability for other EV users who may be travelling further than I, if we were to use the same venue again.
After a few phone calls between head of car parks, head of security, and finally head of sustainable transport (David Hobden), I managed to get the code to the barrier and arranged to pick up a charge card (apparently a Plugged in Midlands card will work, but TBH I haven't got one as I can't see the point. Ecotricity and ChargeMaster are the only two I really need.)
So I pitched up at the site, picked up the card and found the 2 charge bays. Speaking to David one is frequently used by the on site electric van, and the other rarely used..
Now the fun of getting the Tesla to charge starts. Plug in, flashing lights all looks good. Then I get "stopped charging" almost immediately. Unplug, try again, same problem
By this time I had to go, so I left the car plugged in, and tried from the phone app to kick off a charge, but no joy
I had exactly the same symptoms with my first portable EVSE charger. My new one with updated firmware seems to work fine.
The University were very early adopters of EVs here (running a fleet of Axiam Mega Multivans) So I suspect the chargers are pretty early units too. Maybe this is leading to the incompatibility issues?
Has anyone else found this with their Model S ?
* Edited to correct Kangoo to Axiam