Originally Posted by
jamesbrownontheroad
Just a warning: the two Superchargers nearest to LHR which are open to all EVs are both in hotel car parks with mandatory parking fees.
"Heathrow, UK - Terminals 2 & 3" (on Bath Road, A4) is in the car park of the Renaissance London Heathrow (£5 parking fee) and "Heathrow, UK - Terminal 5" (in Poyle) is in the car park of the Hilton London Heathrow T5 (£6 parking fee). Even at off-peak charging rates that might tip the balance back towards the Shell Recharge network.
My preferred Shell Recharge station near Heathrow is at
the Esso Sheppiston Lane UB3 1LL, just off junction 4 of the M4 north of Heathrow. There's a Starbucks, Greggs, Sbarro and Subway, and usually plenty of space. 5 minutes drive back to Hertz.
Wish I knew about this a week and a half ago. The Shell just off the M4 between West Drayton and Harmondsworth had seemingly non-functional chargers. 1 had a sign that it was broken, but the others seem to not accept payment via the Shell fob that Hertz gives you or NFC credit card (the Shell Recharge app is equally useless since you have to load in set blocks at once, not pay per actual use). So I got charged 2 fees on return, one for the missing charge, one for a "rate adjustment" whatever that means. I complained that the key fob didn't work and they agreed to remove the recharge fee at the counter but both charges hit my credit card anyway. I'm currently waiting for Hertz to reply about that. I still have no idea what the 'rate adjustment' was, nor did I notice it at the counter when I was complaining about their key fob not working at the Shell charger.
Basically I got overcharged £18.98 for that mystery fee plus an exactly equal £18.98 for the missing electricity. Not impressed and wouldn't rent an EV from them again now. Unless CS rectifies this, I've been charged about double of what I should have been. (The charging at the Shell would have been about £10 if it had worked so not entirely double but still irritated that the manager said they took off the charge but still hit my credit card and the mystery rate adjustment fee)