Random EV thoughts.....

I mean it's a thread talking about the exact issue I was having, I'm not sure how that makes it random?

Apologies if I came across harsh - not intended that way. Was just responding to the suggestion that it "seems like it's just kind of the way it is?" being based on a 5 year old thread. I thought if it was a common problem/complaint, I think you would readily find more recent complaints online, even here on Boards on one of the dedicated Tesla threads.

As I said, I don't recall this ever being an issue in those threads, but might be worth asking the question in the dedicated Supercharger thread.

My tiguain doesn't anyway and even warns you when you turn it on that there is no charge left. Even at that thought it will switch to battery mode in stop/start traffic, i assume something like a mild hybrid would do but i've never had one of those.

Free lectric☺️, a true self charging hybrid 😏

The only explanation I can think of is that the car is charging the battery a small bit when running on petrol. I did have that option on the Superb but it was heavy on petrol so I rarely used it.

I think BMW PHEVs will use the petrol engine to charge the battery when in sport mode. It'll charge up to around 20% so you can then use the petrol and electric motor combined

Yeah, it sucks. If only BMW would have allowed for max torque from the electric motor at least from zero, the i PHEV cars that are combined petrol and electric would have been winners. Now they are losers. I love the i8. 0-60 time of just 3.7s, which is Ferrari quick, convinced me to buy but in real life it is rather slow compared to really fast EVs. I know I am spoilt that way, but a combustion car, even the fastest ever combustion car ever in the world, would never excite me again.

And I would urge anyone out there not to buy a new combustion performance car either because soon everyone else will find out too and their value will drop

Fill er up and run! 😂

Same thing happens at Ionity City North sometimes, seems to take a while to take the money from your account

I've never been 100% sure but I think the chargers try to sync at the end of each charging session, which occasionally fails due to dodgy internet connections. This is why your holding charge is still there but you haven't been charged for the electricity you took

I'm guessing they're also recording the sessions to a local audit log which then syncs later when the connection is restored

At some point some backend software passes the audit logs for any sessions that weren't reported as closed and when there is one (like your case) then it'll bill the session accordingly

To be clear, I've no knowledge of how these chargers work, I'm just guessing based on some knowledge of vaguely similar software

Had similar with a newly opened EasyGo charger a few weeks ago. Charged on it just to check that it was actually operational and the app tells me that the cost was €0.00. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. 😁

Seems to quite regularly be a week or two later before the email detailing the charge comes through. We don't charge away from home that often so it's usually clear which session is which but if you were to charge regularly at different sites, sorting the receipts out after the fact must be a nuisance.

I've used Ionity Athlone a fair bit over the last 2 months, ID.4 plug and charge works great there.

I saw an email from VW/We Charge that they now bill you the following month for any charging sessions, so the days of late billing are over for Ionity anyway…

Also which services should I sign up to in advance, Ionity, ESB, Tesla, anyone else?

In fairness that is because at first you had EVs, that couldn't use Ionity. And then you had Teslas, that didn't need Ionity 😁

V3 Superchargers (Enfield & Athenry, and Cork/sandyford) are CCS2 so fully compatible with your car…

Look up your cars charging curve on EV database, but as the V3 Superchargers put out 250kW, your car will be the limiting factor, not the charger, so if you arrive with a warm battery and low SoC% you’d see the full 94kW initially.

The car should be warm enough after that drive, but you’d probably want to be below 20% to see the headline speeds, and the speed will taper down as the battery fills up (charging curve)

They do allow you one free transgression before penalising you though.