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By: Roland Lory
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You can supply your electric car with electricity at the fast charging station at the Feneberg market.
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Owners of electric cars need to be careful.
Because you can't charge your vehicle without a time limit everywhere.
A Hesse in Murnau had to discover this.
Consequence: The man found a parking ticket in his mailbox.
Murnau
– Andreas Lauterbach lives in Hesse, more precisely in the town of Hungen.
However, he and his wife often stay in the Staffelsee area.
They have a small wooden weekend house from the 1920s, which the woman's Munich great-grandfather built in Unterau as a fishing hut and which they use as a second home.
Lauterbach has owned an electric car for two years.
With his Hyundai Kona he can travel around 380 kilometers when fully charged.
However, something recently happened to him in Murnau that he found “curious”.
In an email to the Tagblatt, he reports that he received a ticket for charging too long.
He drove his electric car to the fast charging station at Burggraben 49 next to the Feneberg market.
He wanted to power his car for a longer journey.
So he parked the vehicle in one of the two free spaces and started the process.
It took more than two hours for the vehicle to be fully charged.
A few weeks later, the Hessian received a traffic ticket.
He had to pay 35 euros for parking too long.
Because you are only allowed a maximum of two hours.
The Feneberg parking lot is equipped with cameras that measure the time a vehicle is parked in the area.
“I paid for that.
“They were uncompromising,” says Lauterbach.
He thinks: "It's shameful how little electromobility has become part of everyday life in Germany." The Hesse asks himself: "Why aren't you allowed to fully charge your car at a charging station?" Lauterbach thought that there was no sign attached to the column, that the maximum parking time for the parking area also applies to the charging stations.
But this is not the case.
There is such a hint.
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The Munich company Parkdepot is commissioned to manage the Feneberg parking lot.
Tamara Oertel, Senior PR & Marketing Manager, explains the question of why you can't charge your electric car for longer than two hours: “The applicable parking regulations are made individually in coordination with our partner and are therefore adapted to the location-specific conditions. According to her, the e-charging station is primarily available to the customers of the Feneberg branch and should be able to be used by them while shopping.
Since the station is “located in a busy area of Murnau, the aim is to prevent non-customers from “occupying the e-charging stations for long periods of time, so that actual customers cannot use them”.
The Federal Association of eMobility sees no wrongdoing at the company.
The parking space manager or the owner of the area “can and may, within the framework of the legal and regulatory possibilities, determine whether and for how long parking is allowed,” says board member Markus Emmert.
The law and the regulations are very clear and leave no room for interpretation.
“A maximum of two hours is a maximum of two hours.”
Lauterbach says it is not immediately obvious that the offer at the Burggraben is primarily aimed at Feneberg customers.
According to his description, as an electric car owner you experience “a lot of strange situations”.
Anyone who owns such a vehicle “has a similar story of suffering.”
However, Lauterbach had not yet received a ticket for charging his Hyundai.
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