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Evie EV charging networks
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Zoltrix77
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And is the pre-auth IMMEDIATELY removed or in three days time. This is insane.
Preauthorisations or authorisation hold validity can be as short as a day or as long as 30 days depending on the type of "card not present" merchant.
Once the merchant settles a transaction for which there is an authorisation hold, the hold disappears but that assumes the merchant processes the authorisation hold rather than making a new separate transaction. For most people though this is a nothing burger.
I had an email from Evie a couple of days ago. It nominated a $2.00 pre-auth, but said that that might change. It did say that it would take 1-3 days for the bank to reverse the pre-auth. The slowness of the reversal is the main irritation for me. I haven’t used their service yet. It does put me off.
I used the RFID card last time and there was no hold.
I agree. Pre-auths merely temporarily limit your remaining credit, e.g. a $30 pre-auth on a card with a $10,000 limit will reduce your credit for any subsequent transactions to $9,970 until the pre-auth is removed. It’s pretty unlikely a pre-auth will impact your spending ability on a credit card unless you are sailing super-close to the wind.
Hotels I have stayed at have pre-authed as much as $250 to cover minibar and bathrobe raiders.
A $20 pre-auth could be material if you use a debit card that you keep very little money on, but so what, manage your balance on it.
Presumably fast-charging networks have experienced an increase in malicious card use (people who deliberately keep very low balances on debit cards) and have introduced pre-auths to stop the losses.
Off topic posts about charging apps, pre authorisation and Opal cards moved to a new thread.
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Charging and Payment Apps and other methods
Hotels I have stayed at have pre-authed as much as $250 to cover minibar and bathrobe raiders. And hotels typically do an authorisation hold for up to a month. low balances on debit cards And I've heard low balances on Transport NSW Opal cards - a tap on at start of journey causes a negative...
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RichardV
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This was mentioned on FB re Hamilton, Vic.
Reportedly will be moved. (Paywalled but you get the basics)
Charging station site sparks controversy
The station was built metres away from a veteran's war memorial.www.standard.net.au
Charger now moved but still not activated yet.
ARMARM
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Narellan Town Centre, Narellan NSW is now operational!
And Footscray, Vic open.
Nice design on the electrical cabinets.
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Nice design on the electrical cabinets.
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A fantastic day yesterday as we officially launched our Raleigh St Carpark site in Footscray, VIC, in partnership with City of Maribyrnong. A big thank you to everyone who joined us, the Maribyrnong...
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Max Spaghetti
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I hope not.
I much prefer the energy stay within the cabinetry and translate through insulated cables to my EV.
Hervey Bay, Qld now open.
One of the new mid-speed 150kW sites.
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One of the new mid-speed 150kW sites.
Tesla Owners Australia | Hervey Bay finally has a DC charger 🎉 | Facebook
Hervey Bay finally has a DC charger 🎉
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I went to St Leonards today and parked at this location. I know this is the Evie thread but it’s the only place I can see the 4x Exploren chargers mentioned. It seems they are free? Plugshare lists 4x at $0 and then 10 at 28c/kWh although there are still only 4 units installed.
Anyway, charged the Model Y at 11kW as expected but was surprised at not having to pay.
In some ways this was fortunate as the mobile coverage underground was poor so you’d need an RFID card set up for it I presume.
Thanks for the intel about Mall 88 and poor mobile signal
Are there signs indicating the free ones?
It seems that people are charging using the paid ones so maybe there are no signs?
Via the Exploren App, 14x22kW are operational
4x22kW free for now - station 1230-1233
10x22kW at 28c - station 1234-1243
Im not sure if the free ones are permanently free or not or will at some stage be converted to paid
Its good that these charging stations are (mainly) paid - stops charger squatting, and improves charger availability.
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