There are no roaming charges at gas stations, so why on EVSE's? There seems to be some cooperation already. I recently used a Schneider EVSE which accepted my Coulomb card.
I also recommend that there be at least 2 EVSE's at a given installation if there are no others nearby. I was blocked from using a solitary EVSE for about 6 hours recently because a Tesla S was camped on it. I've had a couple owners of property that have EVSE's comment something like "there is usually a Tesla S parked there for hours". In urban areas there are usually more EVSE's nearby, but in more remote areas there may not be another EVSE for many miles. If someone is traveling through they are delayed for hours while they wait for the car to be moved. This is why I think on-board chargers should have more power - so you can add 40 - 50 miles per hour of charging, and only remain connected to the EVSE for 2 hours or less. Then you can leave a note that it is ok to unplug you after such-and-such time. Of course people also need to think of others, and add only as much charge as they require to reach their destination. An S can remain connected for a long time with that large pack. But do they need to? I guess "DC fast chargers" are supposed to address this, but I think there never will be enough proliferation of them to really address the problem in more remote areas. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-California-AB1092-SB454-To-Improve-Plugin-Charging-Access-tp4665218p4665248.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)
