New charge point at Bury St Edmunds. Success or disaster?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:55 pm
Today we used our Multispace electrique to launch the Charge points in Bury St Edmunds car park. The following is a link to a BBC interview on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/ ... 255887.stm
We were the first users of this.
However the installation by a company called Cale, is not good. You pay for the car park after selecting your charge bay, ok so far, but the bays are marked incorrectly. Having worked that out, we then find that to start the charge you have to close the cover of the unit. This wont close over the Berlingo cable, possibly over an LED christmas tree cable but nothing else. Eventually it seemed to charge. Wrong, may have done a half hour but no more. We got back to the car 2.5 hrs later, and tried to restart. No choice but to pay again. It seemed to start, still not easily closing on the cable. It then appeared to do about a half hour again. 6pm 26miles from home me the wife and a four year old. We did) 15miles (just to a friends where we spent two hours charging again. Finally getting home at 9pm.
Great for a PR stunt for the council. Its clear that a totally unsuitable system has been supplied to a council who knew no better. I hope they can get this sorted before someone else gets caught out. The supplier could not have tried this at all
Grumpy-b (Seriously grumpy after this)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/ ... 255887.stm
We were the first users of this.
However the installation by a company called Cale, is not good. You pay for the car park after selecting your charge bay, ok so far, but the bays are marked incorrectly. Having worked that out, we then find that to start the charge you have to close the cover of the unit. This wont close over the Berlingo cable, possibly over an LED christmas tree cable but nothing else. Eventually it seemed to charge. Wrong, may have done a half hour but no more. We got back to the car 2.5 hrs later, and tried to restart. No choice but to pay again. It seemed to start, still not easily closing on the cable. It then appeared to do about a half hour again. 6pm 26miles from home me the wife and a four year old. We did) 15miles (just to a friends where we spent two hours charging again. Finally getting home at 9pm.
Great for a PR stunt for the council. Its clear that a totally unsuitable system has been supplied to a council who knew no better. I hope they can get this sorted before someone else gets caught out. The supplier could not have tried this at all
Grumpy-b (Seriously grumpy after this)