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Last weekend, my wife and I travelled from Rye on the Mornington Peninsular to home in the Goulburn Valley.
The BYD was fully charged when we left, and we had our standard recharge stop at the BP in Cooper street planned out.
When we arrived, one was in use, and the second quick charger free, but despite trying multiple times with both the Evie phone app and the Evie charge card, the charger would stop charging after about ten seconds.
After about ten tries, with the other charger occupied by a BMW that was about 40% full, we gave up.
We have charged here numerous times before, so don't know what the issue was.
I sent an email to the support section of Evie, but hardly surprising that I have received no response.
We had just enough power to make a detour to Avenel on the way home, but both of the chargers were out of service.
The next option was another detour to a charger in Nagambie, that would cut things even finer, so I drove the rest of the way at 85kmhr to conserve battery life.
Before we got to Nagambie , we knew that according to Evie app the charger was in use , so we had to wait for the owners to come out from the pub and disconnect so we could get enough charge to get home.
So the trip ended up taking about 5 hours, when it should have been no more than 3 .5 hrs.
During the trip we passed at least 8 service stations, none of which had EV chargers.
While its great charging the car up for free from our solar panels at home, its those longish trips that cause angst that were never a problem in a gas powered car with a full 600 km range.
We are heading to Melbourne again this weekend for babysitting duties, I think I will take my ute.
I can get to the destination and back on half a tank of fuel.
Mick
The BYD was fully charged when we left, and we had our standard recharge stop at the BP in Cooper street planned out.
When we arrived, one was in use, and the second quick charger free, but despite trying multiple times with both the Evie phone app and the Evie charge card, the charger would stop charging after about ten seconds.
After about ten tries, with the other charger occupied by a BMW that was about 40% full, we gave up.
We have charged here numerous times before, so don't know what the issue was.
I sent an email to the support section of Evie, but hardly surprising that I have received no response.
We had just enough power to make a detour to Avenel on the way home, but both of the chargers were out of service.
The next option was another detour to a charger in Nagambie, that would cut things even finer, so I drove the rest of the way at 85kmhr to conserve battery life.
Before we got to Nagambie , we knew that according to Evie app the charger was in use , so we had to wait for the owners to come out from the pub and disconnect so we could get enough charge to get home.
So the trip ended up taking about 5 hours, when it should have been no more than 3 .5 hrs.
During the trip we passed at least 8 service stations, none of which had EV chargers.
While its great charging the car up for free from our solar panels at home, its those longish trips that cause angst that were never a problem in a gas powered car with a full 600 km range.
We are heading to Melbourne again this weekend for babysitting duties, I think I will take my ute.
I can get to the destination and back on half a tank of fuel.
Mick