free radical wrote:Easy to install a commercial charging station with access card required. Can be made free to employees during business hours and rather steep $$ for the public after hours.JaxDad wrote:
The trend developing lately is EV owners taking the position that charging their EV’s ought to be free everywhere, presumably because they’re doing so much good for society by driving one.
In our case we installed a charging port on our office to support our two Tesla’s.
Then we started to notice unexplained consumption, we installed our own usage meter and log how many kw/h’s each vehicle uses, we would see 20 or 25 kw/h of consumption a couple of times a week. We added a lock to the receptacle enclosure, that lasted 2 days and the lock was gone.
We added an extra camera on the building facing the charging station. Upon reviewing the footage we saw a Nissan Leaf pull in around 10 or 11pm, plug in, and the owner walk away. The next morning around 6 or 7am a man would jog up the street, unplug and drive away. We had an employee who lived very close keep an eye on the place, sure enough a week later he spotted the car pulling in. He circled back around and moved e of the trucks to ‘box in’ the Leaf and turned off the charge circuit.
Around 7am I got a phone call from the local police. The Leaf owner had called them when he returned to his car and found it blocked in.
The Leaf owner was furious and demanding the police charge ME for ‘kidnaping’ his car!
It seems he lived in a nearby condo, which refused to install an EV charging station, and so he ‘had to’ use our place to charge his car.
The police pointed out that iwhat he was doing was trespassing on private property and theft of electricity. Couldn’t convince him. He was given a stern warning, and hasn’t been back since, but did post some pretty outlandish stuff on social media about it.
Wow,,
You let him of too easy,,Id have his car towed and impounded..make him pay nice stiff fine would be a good leson..
JaxDad wrote:
The trend developing lately is EV owners taking the position that charging their EV’s ought to be free everywhere, presumably because they’re doing so much good for society by driving one.
In our case we installed a charging port on our office to support our two Tesla’s.
Then we started to notice unexplained consumption, we installed our own usage meter and log how many kw/h’s each vehicle uses, we would see 20 or 25 kw/h of consumption a couple of times a week. We added a lock to the receptacle enclosure, that lasted 2 days and the lock was gone.
We added an extra camera on the building facing the charging station. Upon reviewing the footage we saw a Nissan Leaf pull in around 10 or 11pm, plug in, and the owner walk away. The next morning around 6 or 7am a man would jog up the street, unplug and drive away. We had an employee who lived very close keep an eye on the place, sure enough a week later he spotted the car pulling in. He circled back around and moved e of the trucks to ‘box in’ the Leaf and turned off the charge circuit.
Around 7am I got a phone call from the local police. The Leaf owner had called them when he returned to his car and found it blocked in.
The Leaf owner was furious and demanding the police charge ME for ‘kidnaping’ his car!
It seems he lived in a nearby condo, which refused to install an EV charging station, and so he ‘had to’ use our place to charge his car.
The police pointed out that iwhat he was doing was trespassing on private property and theft of electricity. Couldn’t convince him. He was given a stern warning, and hasn’t been back since, but did post some pretty outlandish stuff on social media about it.
Chum lee wrote:mike-s wrote:Chum lee wrote:It seems you've answered your own question without knowing it. They're "free EV charging stations". Allowing an RV to park there doesn't turn the RV into an EV. Hence, no free electricity. Plugging in an RV would be no different than scamming a free dessert at a restaurant by falsely claiming it's your birthday.
there are free EV charging stations that have a standard 120 Volt plug and they allow free RV (any vehicle really) overnight parking.
When in college I had a roommate from Afghanistan. One day I asked him, "How old are you?" He replied, "I don't know. 22, 23, 24, I'm not sure." I responded, "Surely you jest. Everybody knows how old they are." He became very upset with me and voiced angrily, "Look my friend, in my country, many people die every day. The day you are born means nothing. If you live a long time and become famous or important, it's the day you die that matters."
Next time, you go ahead and tell my friend Ali to keep his hands off the free birthday cake at the buffet. Maybe you'll annoy him and he'll ring home and send a few suicide bombers to come by your favorite restaurant. Hopefully you'll be there filling your gut at the same time. Another 911. Allahu Akbar!
Although the EV charging situation I mentioned was real, my post was a joke. That's why I started it off with the "monkey wrench" remark. Moral of the story: Use your brain and don't sweat the small stuff! Notice how people who argue points form the moral viewpoint usually assume that they have the higher ground. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. Good luck to you.
Chum lee
valhalla360 wrote:Interesting.
I'm really curious why they bothered to stop for $0.25 of electric...depending on rates that's 1-2kwh...not enough range to really be worth the trouble to stop.
MrWizard wrote:
the 'poor' don't own Rvs either except for the 'street people' that constanly get denouced on these forums as owning shabby RVs that belong in the scrap yard
so having a person with a nice RV plugging into the charge station is not protest
and IF the 'poor' plugged in to cook their dinner, use an electric heater to stay warm or charge their batteries
there would be all kinds of outcry about it
2oldman wrote:TechWriter wrote:Interesting.. I thought the recharging stations (and the cars) had a special plug and voltage.
The Tesla used $0.25 of electric. I think the bike was similar. We didn't charge either.
2oldman wrote:Virtually all EVs can charge from a standard NEMA 5-15 outlet. This is known as L1. And can take several days.TechWriter wrote:Interesting.. I thought the recharging stations (and the cars) had a special plug and voltage.
The Tesla used $0.25 of electric. I think the bike was similar. We didn't charge either.
TechWriter wrote:Interesting.. I thought the recharging stations (and the cars) had a special plug and voltage.
The Tesla used $0.25 of electric. I think the bike was similar. We didn't charge either.
