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My local council have worked with Osprey and installed a charger in their staff car park, a very welcome start. Our local DHL driver has an MG and tipped me off that it was up and running, so off I toddle to check it out and do a little bit of testing in both cars.
Long story short, bumped into the Osprey CEO at the charger, local lad, on a second test in the ID.3 had a problem, reported it to the helpdesk. The CEO chappy gave me a call back yesterday, there's a nuance that's worth knowing.
On my second charging test I turned up with 87% SOC in the ID.3. Turns out the car and the charging unit don't talk to one another very nicely at that SOC and the car won't charge. Seems as if this can occur on other cars and is an issue when initiating a charge above 80% SOC.
Just thought I'd let people know just in case, unlikely that many people will attempt a charge at 80% or above, but if you do, it might not work. A never ending game of chase the firmware updates with the car and charger manufacturers apparently.
My local council have worked with Osprey and installed a charger in their staff car park, a very welcome start. Our local DHL driver has an MG and tipped me off that it was up and running, so off I toddle to check it out and do a little bit of testing in both cars.
Long story short, bumped into the Osprey CEO at the charger, local lad, on a second test in the ID.3 had a problem, reported it to the helpdesk. The CEO chappy gave me a call back yesterday, there's a nuance that's worth knowing.
On my second charging test I turned up with 87% SOC in the ID.3. Turns out the car and the charging unit don't talk to one another very nicely at that SOC and the car won't charge. Seems as if this can occur on other cars and is an issue when initiating a charge above 80% SOC.
Just thought I'd let people know just in case, unlikely that many people will attempt a charge at 80% or above, but if you do, it might not work. A never ending game of chase the firmware updates with the car and charger manufacturers apparently.