{"id":21981,"date":"2026-02-16T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/why-did-i-get-a-100-parking-fine-when-charging-my-electric-car\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:37:20","slug":"why-did-i-get-a-100-parking-fine-when-charging-my-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/why-did-i-get-a-100-parking-fine-when-charging-my-electric-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did I get a \u00a3100 parking fine when charging my electric car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charger firm claimed the site operated 24 hours a day, but the parking operator had different ideas<\/p>\n<p><strong>I charged my electric car at the 24-hour Mer EV <\/strong><strong>charging station in my local B&amp;Q car park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I then received a \u00a3100 parking charge notice (PCN) from the car park operator, Ocean Parking. It said no parking is allowed on the site between 9pm<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>6am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/feb\/16\/parking-fine-charging-electric-car-mer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c1492fe9df23444c0146742f2d735ed6643074d\/378_0_3700_2959\/master\/3700.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c9a0862ae72785cda70ab7d4e824af01\" title=\"Why did I get a \u00a3100 parking fine when charging my electric car?\" \/>The charger firm claimed the site operated 24 hours a day, but the parking operator had different ideas<br \/>\nI charged my electric car at the 24-hour Mer EV charging station in my local B&amp;Q car park.<br \/>\nI then received a \u00a3100 parking charge notice (PCN) from the car park operator, Ocean Parking. It said no parking is allowed on the site between 9pm and 6am. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charger firm claimed the site operated 24 hours a day, but the parking operator had different ideas I charged my electric car at the 24-hour Mer EV charging station in my local B&amp;Q car park. I then received a \u00a3100 parking charge notice (PCN) from the car park operator, Ocean Parking. It said no &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/why-did-i-get-a-100-parking-fine-when-charging-my-electric-car\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why did I get a \u00a3100 parking fine when charging my electric car?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}