BenK wrote:
Check your city garages...many are now installing charging stations....some are
even 'quick' charging stations.
Plus, some have not catch on to put a pay station and are freebies both for the
electricity and parking...for now...
We are seeing some pay for park but power is free. You tap your credit card and pay for parking (a buck an hour on the one I used today) but level 2 power was free. We can only do 3.3 KW per hour but the parking you have to pay anyway. Lots of hotels allow free charging as incentive to eat at their restaurant. Plugshare is a great app. We put our home charger on the network but really it would only be useful to somebody as a last resort. BC hydro continues to add public stations but I'm not convinced they put enough thought into where they are. Shopping malls and places like Costco need to be set up with level 2 and 3 charging. They are not expensive to set up and would be a huge draw for clientele. I see this being done much more in the US than Canada but it is an evolving thing. Some interesting stats on the BC hydro site. If every car in BC tomorrow were to change to Electric it would only add an additional 19 percent load to the grid. Well within the overcapacity of the grid and there is lots more capacity coming on line in the next two decades. Electric vehicles won't replace gas or diesel as a fuel but they will definitely change how we commute in the next couple of decades.
