On another newswire I was working on, it showed public ClipperCreek EVSE being installed, yet the words stated the host was charging $ an hour.
Hmm ... I thought ClipperCreek did not have a billing solution in place yet. I previously had been nudging them with emails about that. They have a cost effective, tough, all-weather EVSE that is built like tank, but no way for a host to get a use-fee. I contacted ClipperCreek again and surprisingly, they now have a vendor offering a billing solution. I am pending confirmation of what I know, and I asked for the toll-free telephone number, but until then, I quickly threw a website together for you-all to look at: http://brucedp13.20m.com/evse13/ (My page has the images from a presentation file ClipperCreek sent me. I had to convert it from pdf to jpg images, resized them, and write some simple html code so you could see it) It seems there is a company, Lliberty-Plugins, that is offering a connectivity package to hosts that is different than other EVSE companies. It is much-more cost effective to hosts @only $6 month. See http://www.libertyplugins.com/res/Wkpl%20Environment%20Feb%202%2013.pdf (Their presentation pdf did not show the low-cost break-down like the pdf from ClipperCreek, hence, why I allowed you to view both) The cost differential between a standard ClipperCreek CS-40 EVSE http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/ClipperCreekInc/-strse-1/Charging-Station--fdsh--CS-dsh-40/Detail.bok $1,750 Charging Station / CS-40 Public Infrastructure And a Liberty enabled ClipperCreek CS-40 EVSE http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/ClipperCreekInc/-strse-20/CS-dsh-40-With-Liberty-Plugin/Detail.bok $2650 CS-40 With Liberty Plugin Enabled Access Control Is ~$900. That is not bad at all. Add a $6 a month billing fee, that is cheap compared to the other EVSE companies. So, if your employer has been sitting on the fence until cheaper EVSE and a cheaper billing method can be found, or if your boss has decided to go cheap and now wants a cheap way to change the 'free' EVSE at work to use-fee (or he is threatening to turn them off), now there is this for them to check-out. Use scenario: A driver comes up on a Liberty enabled CS-40 EVSE. They either use their smart phone to pay the use-fee, or the driver finds a public phone to call the toll free number to have the use-fee billed to them (likely a credit card). Once the payment is secure, the driver is given a code to punch in on the keypad seen on the Liberty enabled ClipperCreek CS-40 EVSE. It is different, but more affordable for the host than the methods used by the big-boy EVSE companies. *And, one less RFID EVSE card to carry around! When I get more details I will post it to this thread. {brucedp.150m.com} -EVangel@work- -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Cheap-public-EVSE-with-a-cheap-billing-method-for-hosts-ClipperCreek-tp4664404.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
