77-year-old Göran Björstad got a bill of 105,000 kroner after he had charged his electric Kia. "This kind of thing happens from time to time," says the charging operator.
77-year-old Göran Björstad does not have DKK 105,000 in his account. But if he had, the charging operator Eways would have also withdrawn the money.
The charging operator believes that it is the price for charging a plug-in hybrid. A charge that lasted about an hour and a quarter.
This is what the 77-year-old man tells Expressen .
In the app that Göran Björstad has to connect the Kia to the charging station at all, it said that he had used 21,000 kilowatt-hours in one hour. And that he therefore had to pay DKK 105,000.
– I thought it was a joke, he says to Expressen.
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But it wasn't a joke. Instead, the charge – which corresponds to the average consumption of one house per year – is the result of 'a mistake'. At least if you ask the charging operator Eways.
Instead of the electric car's current consumption, the charging stand's own meter reading was settled. That confusion has somehow happened in the system.
At Eways, technical director Lars Eliasson, however, does not believe that the error is worse than that 'it happens from time to time, but that it is unusual.'
Göran Björstad is left with a promise that he will not pay the huge bill. But if he had the money, it would have been withdrawn from the account.
However, it is also increasingly common for people in electric cars to try to cheat themselves out of paying for electricity for their cars. For example, this year a 78-year-old man was convicted of stealing electricity for his Polestar 2. While another was convicted of stealing just a few hours of electricity for his workplace. Read more about it here .
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