Hi, it's Matt here from Go Green Autos and I'm at the new Fastned charging hub in
Oxford and there was some confusion on a previous video I did about this place
on the parking charges. So that's what I'm going to look at in this video.
So this new charging hub is in the Redbridge Park and Ride car park at Oxford and you have to pay to
park your car here - that is if you're parking and then using the bus over there into town.
And as you enter the car park here, there are cameras on that pole there which I'm assuming
are number plate recognition cameras and there's many CCTV cameras dotted around the car park.
And if you're using the 10 Fastned charging bays here,
there is a sign on each one saying maximum stay of 45 minutes.
But no signage on the AC charging there or the Tesla superchargers here.
But as with many public chargers in the UK, you've just got to be a bit careful if these sites are
within car parks or locations where there is (parking) charging, so you've got to follow
the rules otherwise you can be caught out and some weeks later you can get a fine in the post.
So on my previous video about this place, people did comment and say you get one hour
free parking - which indeed you do, but if you come over here to the machines...
is your parking machines here, it does say that the first hour is free. However,
you need to get a ticket and you need to register your number plate in the machine here and this is
how you get a ticket if you're paying and this is how you get a ticket when you're not paying.
So if you're not paying, what you got to do is press the yellow button first
and it says this is to issue a free ticket. You've then got to put your registration number in
and press the green button
and then you get a ticket and I'm assuming
going to have to do this as EV drivers otherwise you got the risk of getting a fine.
But I've been here twice so far using these Tesla superchargers here and I haven't got that
free ticket yet and as of yet, I've not received anything in the post and both times i was here for
a good 50 minutes each time, not only charging as I'm doing there, but also making these videos.
So I'm not sure yet whether you do actually need to get that one hour free ticket if you're just
charging, but it's a simple thing to do, so you might as well just air on the side of caution.
So I hope that helps. As always,
hit the thumbs up button on YouTube if you've found this video useful.
That might help someone coming here for the first time and may save you getting a ticket anyway.
Do subscribe if you haven't and I'll see you on the next video.
So since recording this video, I've discovered hozar.com, I think that's how you pronounce it.
So I'm here at Oxford again charging and I haven't picked up a ticket from the machine.
Instead I'm relying on the app, because that tracks when you go into a car park
which uses the scheme and then tracks you going out
and in this case you get one hour free and it sorts that for you so you don't have to
go over there and pick up a ticket. But of course if you stayed longer,
it will sort out the payment as well. So if you're a regular user here up at Oxford,
you can use that or indeed the same for other car parks which uses hozar.com.
So here if you look around you will see you've got signage to say that it runs the hozar scheme
and obviously then you don't have to get that ticket and it also helps if you happen
to overstay your free period you don't have to worry about not having a ticket in your car,
the app is going to sort out the payment and you pay the correct amount when you leave over there.