Hindsight is a wonderful thing fidgetbones and with that, I should have put it back up for sale. I have all my camera gear and boxes on the dining room table ready to photograph and putting it up for sale but life is too short for agro so I'll put it away and let my daughter sort it out when I've gone north to play my harp or down south to aggravate the devil.
Popped out to the posh farm shop to buy some buggy bits from the RSPB shop ( the jackdaws have been making pigs of themselves, but we don’t want the little birds to miss out) The car park has a row of a dozen Tesla chargers, all full today, with a queue, down the middle of the car park, of more Teslas waiting to use the chargers. Had to get at least three to move their cars so we could get ours out of the space. They were also blocking at least six regular car parking spaces, and the place was really busy. Must remember not to go there again on a Saturday, especially at the end of half term. I think there were a lot of holiday makers on their way home from Devon and Cornwall, all charging up ready for the rest of the journey.
@KT53 most city and town centre car parks here have you enter your registration into a meter and pay for as long as you need when you arrive. No tickets but traffic wardens have access to the info in case you overstay. They have battery charging points too.
Multi storey car parks have pay machines at the pedestrian exit and re-entry points so you pay before you get back to your car. No pay machines near the exits so no pay as you leave. Some even have detectors for people with motorway péage passes so it just gets debited from your credit card.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
mm, there really aren't enough EV chargers down this way yet
The problem around here is getting people to understand that EV charging points aren't for normal cars to park in. No one can ever charge their car because the spaces are usually closer to shops to reduce vandalism but there's no enforcement to stop the terminally lazy parking there to save themselves a few metres of walking.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Some EV drivers also need to realise that they need to shift their car when they have finished charging. There was the driver of an EV car complaining in our local paper that they received a ticket from a local supermarket for leaving their car on a charger all day when parking is limited to 3 hours.
@KT53 most city and town centre car parks here have you enter your registration into a meter and pay for as long as you need when you arrive. No tickets but traffic wardens have access to the info in case you overstay. They have battery charging points too.
Multi storey car parks have pay machines at the pedestrian exit and re-entry points so you pay before you get back to your car. No pay machines near the exits so no pay as you leave. Some even have detectors for people with motorway péage passes so it just gets debited from your credit card.
The car park in question is pay on exit, but you are supposed to pay and then get your car. The pay machines are fairly close to the exit gate. You have about 15 minutes to exit the car park after paying so it's not a panic to get out. Some people are simply too idle to walk the few extra yards to pay first.
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I have all my camera gear and boxes on the dining room table ready to photograph and putting it up for sale but life is too short for agro so I'll put it away and let my daughter sort it out when I've gone north to play my harp or down south to aggravate the devil.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Multi storey car parks have pay machines at the pedestrian exit and re-entry points so you pay before you get back to your car. No pay machines near the exits so no pay as you leave. Some even have detectors for people with motorway péage passes so it just gets debited from your credit card.
The car park in question is pay on exit, but you are supposed to pay and then get your car. The pay machines are fairly close to the exit gate. You have about 15 minutes to exit the car park after paying so it's not a panic to get out. Some people are simply too idle to walk the few extra yards to pay first.