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According to the FAQs on NRMA Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Network | The NRMA (my emphasis):Does anyone know when NRMA plan to start charging / limiting access to their network?
QESH sites are now handled by Chargefox, at (IMHO) quite reasonable rates.
They already have an app and have alluded to it being required in the future.I assume they'll have to roll out some kind of app and/or rfid card before they start charging, so there'll be some notice.
I can see them just partnering with Chargefox and linking to see if you're an NRMA member or not. ChargeFox already have the infrastructure in place but NRMA would have to build from scratch the charger-monitoring systems, payment systems, etc.They already have an app and have alluded to it being required in the future.
Newcastle-local here. Have contacted both NRMA and NCC multiple times about the frequent ICEing issues and neither are interested.On a short 3 day stay in Lake Macquarie region, yesterday went to Wallsend for a look around, morning tea at the Tempest and a charge at the NRMA charger. Had to do a couple of turns around the area before finding the correct car park as the nav told me to turn left instead of right.
Some comments:
1 there’s no signposting to make locating the charger easier for a first timer. We need standardised signposting in Australia.
2 not all users are logging in to PlugShare, making it a lottery. Fortunately one of the two spots was free and the Leaf charging there left as we arrived.
3 by the time we left (after 45 minutes) the spot the Leaf used was ICE’d (they’d just arrived). I tried to tell them it was poor form but got yelled at for my trouble (“I don’t f...n care”). It was real f’n aggression!
4 no nearby toilet at this charger, and no cover in case of rain.
From other PlugShare comments, #3 seems to be a problem there so I’m going to write to both NRMA and Lake Macquarie (Newcastle?) council about monitoring the site and issuing infringement notices to people who misuse the spots. Also signposting to the location.
While in Wallsend I also parked briefly at the destination charger outside Liquorland. Both spots there were ICE free.
Correct response:I tried to tell them it was poor form but got yelled at for my trouble (“I don’t f...n care”). It was real f’n aggression!
Hmm... I doubt that would end well.Correct response:
“You’ll care when I key the sh*t out of it, so move the f*ck’n thing before I drop you. “
I grew up around there and speak fluent Wallsendian.
...report your vehicle to Centre Management?”
Thanks for the tip.Correct response:
“You’ll care when I key the sh*t out of it, so move the f*ck’n thing before I drop you. “
I grew up around there and speak fluent Wallsendian.
An alternative would be “Cool, since you don’t care, then you won’t mind if I photograph your registration plate...
Or carry around a yellow vest, a utility belt, a silly hat, and either a PDA or a phoney ticket book. Whip out the latter, give an obvious eye roll, gesture that they should probably just POQ, and watch them flee.Just whip out your phone and take the picture. And have an exit