Hi everyone! Welcome back to my video. It's been absolutely ages since I've done one farm back and this time we are going to explore Tesco's charging station with podpoint. My wife, Jessica, and Yuka, it's a Volkswagen Passat. GTE hybrid, I think I've got that all right. So yeah we're going to get and find out how to charge up Tesco's podpoint because they've partnered with Volkswagen. So we're going to start by downloading the app and see what we have to do there. And then I'm actually going to let Claire present to you because it's her car and the best way to learn is to do it for yourself. The first thing we need to do is go to the podpoint app which I've just installed for our Google Play. So we're just going to open it up. This is the first time I've opened it up. You know allow access to location while using the app which is the second option. Now we're just going to go through this step by step and see what it is that we need to do. So we're going to go through the guidance there next. And search for our podpoint. Confirm that we're charging. And then just to start unplug your car. Okay. Let's have a look. So these are all the podpoint locations around the country. And then I'm guessing we need to set up an account. So let's click on there and we'll sign up. Right so I'm just going to pause the video while I fill in my details. So I've just signed up to enter my name, country and email. And this is the next page now. So it wants details about our vehicles. So I'm just going to fill that in. And we've now got a vault working. Oh my wife's got vaults working. Well, wait a minute. I've got a percent. Oh there we are. Add my vehicle. Okay. And now it wants payment details. So although vaults were again, test go up and podpoint appear to have partnered up and saying that it's free to charge. I believe that there are some points that do still require payments. So it's always good idea to put in your payment details. So you're all prepared ready to go. So both of me and I'll put my details in. I've added my bank details now. My code details and this is the next page. So add a podpoint home charger. Connect your home charger. We don't have a home charger. You'll have seen from my other videos at the minute we plug into a normal domestic plug. So I'm just going to select. I don't have a home charger right now. So you can see I haven't put anything on my balance. If I go to top up, I can have five pound ready to go or however much I want. So if I come out of that and there's got all my vehicle details. Tell me what kind of socket I need. So type two socket. And then just you generic stuff down at the bottom there. And if I get a podpoint in the future, I can add it there to add your home podpoint. All right, let's see how we get on. All right Claire. So this is your first time charging your Volkswagen Passat hybrid car. Yeah. What do you want to tell us about it? So I'm pulled up at the Tesco station with the new podpoint. And I'm going to try it out to say that you can charge for free while you shop. So I downloaded the podpoint app on my phone and I'm just unraveling the cable for the best time. And now I'm going to plug it into my car, plug it into the podpoint and follow the instructions on the screen. So hopefully it's as simple as they have said it is. Other front of the Passat, you have to press in and the winder pops open to see your charge point. And then you uncover the charge point and obviously you can see the charger that goes in that side. So you make sure that's securely in and there's a light there. Which I presume means we're all okay and we're in. And then we get the cable on the other side into here, which is the Sage Eden podpoint. And they have different references to this. So that's going green. So we'll just come out to this screen and the cable. It says on the machine, so plug your car in and then choose your podpoint on the app. So that's what I'm just going to do. Podpoint. And then if I just search for clay cross because that's where we are. Ah sorry when you click on that, I should show you the available sockets available. And we are at Sage Eden so I'm selecting that one. And I don't know what that is. Be because I'm on door B and see what happens. Charge confirmed. So yeah we're just looking at this again and on the podpoint app you can see now that the side that we selected shows charging. And so green light on the front of the car, green light on the machine and the app confirms that this is now charging and at the top it says no cost for this charge. The screen stayed exactly the same so it's the app that you need to be referring to. We've been shopping and the charging might be free but the shopping wasn't. So we've come out and I found on the app how to use this charger. So if you just click should have done this earlier but it takes you for exactly what to do how to charge. And then obviously set for how to stop charging. So when you come back obviously because you've unlocked your vehicle it should now allow you to unplug the vehicle. So I'm just going to try that now because obviously I've never done this before. So I presume that's what will happen. So obviously the car is unlocked. So when your car is actually unlocked you can unplug the charger. Take it off from here now because it's not charging. And that is it and then I believe what we should see now. We're just going to the app again. And what we should now be able to see is because we've finished charging you should be able to see a stats for the week and for the month. So it should show me exactly how much we've charged. So no cost we've added up to four kilowatts per hour of charge. And we were literally shopping an hour. So just to conclude our trip to Tesco we were there for an hour we didn't hours were for shopping the car which means the car was on charge for an hour and we used the seven kilowatt per hour charging point. And we ended up with eight miles. So this is where there in mind. It seems to be a very slow charge. Obviously this is the first time that we've been to one of these charges. I believe that there are higher kilowatt charges available as well. As I'm going to go to these I'll update videos and do various links to this video. So watch out for those. But this is certainly worth bearing in mind. To see more about different types of charges you can click on their playlist here and don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Also if you've been to Tesco Charger I'd love to know your experience and what you found so please comment below. Until next time take care.