Parking Fine in Electric Vehicle Bay

They’re fairly black and white about these things. They won’t care if it was 5 minutes or 5 hours, a sandwich or a 3 course meal. If you weren’t entitled to be in the bay, you weren’t entitled.

You knew you shouldn’t park there. You got caught. Pay the fine and move on.

It depends on the parking/charging location.

Some are free while parking some are not. An EV parked in one that's not free will have to pay parking while charging . A few EV drivers have been caught out where they got a fine for not paying for parking while charging.

Looking at the Meath council website they have some chargers that are free while charging.

Its obnoxious blocking an EV charger. Be it an EV that's finished charging or an ICE car. I'm sorry you got fined but not sorry there is a fine.

Pay up and move on,I had a battle with clampers years ago,it aged me,not worth it.

That wasn't the first reply. The OP marked it as an answer, which moved it to the first reply spot. Victor's post was after elperello's post (you can tell by the timestamps), and the OP's first reply after that was to accept it.

mebollix. I used to hear that all the time from entitled parents parking across my driveway for the crèche next door. ‘I was only there for 5 minutes’ and ‘there was nowhere else to park’, translates as ‘I don’t care if I inconvenienced you during those 5 minutes’ and ‘I’m too lazy to walk from where I should have parked given there were no suitable spaces convenient’.

With all the money EV drivers are saving, surely a parking ticket is not somethings to worry about....

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