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Evie EV charging networks
- Thread starter baillies
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Most are BYO cable, aren't they? I haven't seen a list of which have a cable and which don't - I had to go looking at photos on Plugshare to get that information. (I'm too cheap, alas, to lash out $300+ on a type2-type2 cable unless I really need it)
At the Evie 50kW chargers at Belrose (Sydney Northern Beaches) the chargers seem to have been retrofitted with direct credit card payment terminals. I haven’t tried using it - I have an Evie RFID card - but that would seem a helpful enhancement, especially for those sites with poor mobile service for people who don’t have an RFID card.
Looks like it's mentioned in the Evie app as a trial site for tap & go payments
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Evie Leongatha now showing open on Plugshare.
South Gippy is getting spoiled for choice!
South Gippy is getting spoiled for choice!
Haha I noticed the same thing while scrolling through PlugShare - I reported it to Evie and said it must be misnamed.
It must be 'new' as it doesn't have live data on PlugShare.
If it's where the map says it's a pretty good location. Amenities and similar distance from the highway to the superchargers.
Drove down there and confirm its at Marketfair next to Hungry Jacks. Tested it out and worked fine on my MG4 using my RFID card.
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Another new site is HomeCo. Warners Bay in Newcastle.
HomeCo. Warners Bay | Warners Bay, NSW | EV Station
HomeCo. Warners Bay - MS047 Evie 150kW DC Chargers MS047A (Charger A) - CCS/Cha MS047B (Charger B) - dual CCS2 Turn at the lights, and then after just a few metres immediately turn left and go up the ramp.
www.plugshare.com
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Went and tested out the Edmondson Park Campbelltown site this morning in the Dolphin.
It's a good location for amenities, but the car park itself is a nightmare and gets quite busy during the day.
The amount of psychos (all in utes) at 5:30am that take a shortcut through there to avoid a set of lights to get to Menangle Rd was crazy.
It's a good location for amenities, but the car park itself is a nightmare and gets quite busy during the day.
The amount of psychos (all in utes) at 5:30am that take a shortcut through there to avoid a set of lights to get to Menangle Rd was crazy.
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I am trying the tap-to-pay direct card payment they have the initial installation at Evie Belrose now. Costs $0.55/kWh vs $0.50/kWh normally. I used my Apple Watch to pay, authorised and started charging really quickly. It doesn’t work with Amex at all and says it only works with debit (rather than credit) Visa and Mastercard which seems unnecessarily restrictive to me; even if the fee on credit cards and Amex might be higher they have an additional 10% in their selling price to cover it. When you start charging it takes $50 from your card at the start of the session, which I guess will get cancelled and the actual amount for the session charged some time later. If it takes a few days, you use Evie tap-to-pay several times in a short time (eg on a road trip) and you only have a small amount in your debit card balance this could be an issue…
Anyway it seems to work and will be great when they roll it out at those places that don’t have mobile coverage for the app (for those people who don’t have an Evie RFID card). Thought it was worth “taking one for the team” and giving it a try.
Anyway it seems to work and will be great when they roll it out at those places that don’t have mobile coverage for the app (for those people who don’t have an Evie RFID card). Thought it was worth “taking one for the team” and giving it a try.
FYI as a follow-up to the above, the $50 pre-authorisation for the Evie tap-and-go charging session got changed to the actual cost (about $10) just now, so it stayed as $50 for a bit over 24 hours. I filled in their survey on the tap-and-go. Here is what I put in the free-form comments box at the bottom:
I've been pointing this out for as long as people have been asking about tap payments for charging. I don't believe there's a way around it - it's not like the payment terminals on chargers at different sites can communicate and share the preauth.
If it's under $82.50 (including GST) they don't have to provide one, otherwise I guess you have to provide them enough card details (eg last 4 digits, price) to track down your transaction.
If you want a receipt / tax invoice, I don't think it's unreasonable to require use of the app.
No, I don’t see any way to do that at all, and I would doubt the detail in the (eventual) actual transaction against my card is enough to substantiate what the payment was for for tax, etc reasons. I mean it is from “Fast Cities Australia” (which is what all the Evie charges show as) and only shows the location as Sydney. There isn’t any way to “claim“ the session into my Evie account afterwards either (eg by providing the card number used and the date or something like that)
i think anyone who needs to claim/reimburse for a charging session should be using the app or RFID card (ie have an Evie account) and get the invoice out of that. Really you’d only pay the 10% extra to NOT use an account if you are a “casual” user who is hardly ever going to use Evie (so the amounts wouldn’t add up to enough to bother claiming for) or you are from overseas and can’t access the Australian app store to download/install the Evie app.
if they DID do a per-session QR code they could provide a downloadable invoice off that - but then they would have actually had to finalise the payment during the time you would still have the browser open for that session, not as it seems now 24 hours afterwards…
