PHEVs are welcome on 3.6kW to 7.2kW chargers as long as they don’t simply use them as parking spaces. Last week I parked next to a PHEV & it was charging on a 7.2kW post so no problem.
PHEVs are not so welcome on some of the rapid chargers (50kW DC CHAdeMO & CCS, plus upto a 43kW AC socket) where they use the Type 2 AC socket to draw just 3.6kW for hours whilst BEVs sit waiting their turn to get a top-up to get them home. The PHEV charges too slow, block BEVs from using the chargers to draw 50kW, & only charges enough to gain 15 miles or so of motorway range in about 3 hours.
Now, some of the rapid chargers can support an AC connection & a DC connection at the same time, you can plug into those if you know which ones support it, but they are really meant for 22kW & 43kW Zoe charging or for emergency 7kW charging of BEVs to get them as far as the next charger when the DC circuits have failed.
The 7kW fast chargers are usually posts in car parks (supermarkets, train stations) or wall box type chargers in some car parks, they are cheap & often free to use. And then there are the advertising post 7kW chargers that Tesco have next to a normal 7kW post.
Rapid chargers (50kW DC and faster) are large, like petrol pumps or larger, they have expensive transformers inside & thick tethered charging leads that are possibly water cooled.
You will see these around quite a bit, ABBs Terra charger, note they have a tethered 7kW AC lead rather than a socket.
And these Ionity 350kW chargers don’t have an AC socket (or CHAdeMo DC socket) (yes, that’s my car on that Ionity charger, suckling at up to 100kW)
