Just spotted this ad.
Free EV fast charging at Z Turangi and Z Beach Rd until November 8th.
I don't own an EV so no idea if this is worth anything to those of you that do and are in the vicinity of these two Z stations.
Figured I would post it anyway!
Referrer gets 1 free coffee (up to 3 max). Referrer requires referee's phone number.
Referee gets 50L+ extra 25L. Referrer gets 50L. Referral code needs to be entered during account creation in the "Promo" section.
Sweet, My local charger is back. Has been several weeks since the charge.net one was removed from beach road.
And looks if it is the same unit as the one pictured, it can charge two cars at one (one of each cord type), which is great compared to the unit it replaced which could only have one cord at a time.
On the value of the freebe, the old beach road charger was charged at 25c/min + 25c/kWh, so it is nice if I need to fast charge anyway, but for me not worth my time to visit, rather than charging slowly at home. Vector fast chargers (other side of CBD & newmarket) have been free for quite some time, but suffer from long wait times, so I avoid them.
Yes it could, tried it out myself. The caveat is that if 2 cars are charging (One CHAdeMO and one Type 2 CCS) both only get 25kw. I wonder how Z will charge for this once their app goes online.
The Turangi charger is critical for many EVs, as it's the last fast charger on SH1 south of Taupo, just before the big climb towards Desert Road. Unlike the Beach Road/CBD charger where the charger was removed for weeks, the Turangi one was swapped out from ChargeNet to Z in just a day.
We should find out tomorrow (Nov 1) regarding the pricing when the app gets released. I would guess they will follow the rest of the market and go with either 35c/min+25c/kWh, or 50 - 60c / kWh.
The Beach road charger is very useful to me, as it is between my place and the motorway ramps, Meaning I can easily pick up some extra charge for another subsequent trip in the same day in my short ranged leaf (and can potentially use it as a bail out location, 2km short of home, if my range is looking really dicey (never actually cut it that fine).
But I acknowledge it is quite lightly used (likely due to the 2x 50kW vector stations located on the other side of the CBD, and in new-market). That is part of the appeal to me is that it is vacant most of the time.
Would seem unfair to charge you by the minute then throttle your charge to half speed of another vehicle turns up meaning you'll unknowingly be there for twice as long. That said it's good the second car that arrived can at least plug in instead of just hanging around waiting to activate the charger.
I'm still interested watching the roll out of new chargers that so few petrol stations are adding them, even brand new ones. They are already geared up with cafes to fill your charging time with and seems a missed opportunity for them that is I need a quick charge I'm more likely to buy a coffee and food than I ever was filling up a petrol car. I have liked the south island ones in towns like rakaia and cheviot where they feel like a community thing on the side of the road that when you stop there's nearly always a playground and small locally owned cafe for a coffee right next to them that encourages you to spend at a local business instead if a big chain of service stations.
Good point on the shared capacity. Makes a time-based charge unworkable.
Just downloaded the app and their Wellington & Rolleston chargers are $0.69/kWh. Makes their pricing at the upper end of the range, but it is not unreasonable.
Bad news is that Z requires people load credit (min $10) to prior to use. Same as openloop, but much less nice than chage.net who simply charge your credit card for each transaction.
Link to the Facebook post this came from