Today, we where required to make a very unplanned journey at about two hours notice.
The car only had about 26% of range remaining on the battery.
I needed a charge and fast !.
About two miles away from my home address, there is a fairly new Polar rapid charger located on a hotel car park.
I grabbed my Polar Plus RFID card and placed the car on only its second rapid charge in almost seven months of ownership.
Plugged in the car and off it went with out any fuss or bother !.
We had been charging for about 25 minutes ( ish ) and the car was just approaching the 78 - 79% mark.
I intended to let the car hit 80% and then stop the charge.
As I walked up to the charger to cancel / finish the charge, the screen suddenly displayed a large red cross and some text under the red cross.
It displayed a "Translation error" warning.
The car had stopped charging of course.
We had enough range to make our trip, so off we went.
Has anybody else witnessed this type of behaviour folks ?.
Is it the car or is this a known problem on this type of Polar charger ?.
99% of our charging needs are done at home and when we have a long trip to make, it hits the full battery status with no problem at all.
P.S. - I could not see anywhere on the info screen that reports what speed we where getting from the charging unit.
The length of time we had been charging was shown, together with the amount of power we had received into the battery, but no indication of the speed of the charge.
Am I missing something or does it not display the speed / rate of charge ?.
The car only had about 26% of range remaining on the battery.
I needed a charge and fast !.
About two miles away from my home address, there is a fairly new Polar rapid charger located on a hotel car park.
I grabbed my Polar Plus RFID card and placed the car on only its second rapid charge in almost seven months of ownership.
Plugged in the car and off it went with out any fuss or bother !.
We had been charging for about 25 minutes ( ish ) and the car was just approaching the 78 - 79% mark.
I intended to let the car hit 80% and then stop the charge.
As I walked up to the charger to cancel / finish the charge, the screen suddenly displayed a large red cross and some text under the red cross.
It displayed a "Translation error" warning.
The car had stopped charging of course.
We had enough range to make our trip, so off we went.
Has anybody else witnessed this type of behaviour folks ?.
Is it the car or is this a known problem on this type of Polar charger ?.
99% of our charging needs are done at home and when we have a long trip to make, it hits the full battery status with no problem at all.
P.S. - I could not see anywhere on the info screen that reports what speed we where getting from the charging unit.
The length of time we had been charging was shown, together with the amount of power we had received into the battery, but no indication of the speed of the charge.
Am I missing something or does it not display the speed / rate of charge ?.