Jaguar Racing Team

Heading back to France today, Sunday, just need to recharge car in Tonbridge….yes, I said just. So I headed to the first charging station signaled by my WE CHARGE app, check out the picture, it’s shut, only open during garage hours.
So off to the second station, private but linked to BP. As you can see the machine was off, but there was a 24/7 number so I called BP who checked, very efficient, the owner turned it off on Tuesday, there’s nothing we can do. But helpful he directed me to the nearest BP PULSE garage. Both slots were occupied by Jaguar E racing team cars, but at 175 kW this should be quick……Driver 1: “Can’t get this to work I feel like telling them where to put it” (don’t think I need a map), so I try and after 10 minutes I’ve tried everything, so I call the BP 24/7 line, who like any other help line, at distance, turned it off and turned it back on again. And hey presto.
So 175kW eh…. Well I read that my ID3 is limited to 100, so that should be quick, 77% of 58kWh is 44kWh well that should take less than half an hour, so why does the machine say 95 minutes? well because the 175kW machine is only working at 28 kW. I was not happy, I checked the Jaguar on the other machine which was charging at 36 kW, but he had never done this before. A Kia Niro showed up comes here every week, “I thought this was normal” he says. So onto the 24/7 again, no this is not normal we’ll get a techie over, just not today.
So I phone the trouble and strife who drops by with my breakfast, there finished (the blog article), only another 20 minutes left now for the charge. Incidentally they charge for a 175kW service, thanks BP.

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