Have you ever been customer of a US bank? I was totally shocked when I came to the USA, fed my new ATM card into the nearest machine and was asked to pay several dollars "convenience fee" just to pull my money out of the machine, simply because it was not the same bank as where I had my account. In Europe (or at least in The Netherlands) I was used to just look for the nearest ATM of any bank and pull my money out without fee, because all banks are connected anyway so there is no additional cost and the ATM saves them the cost of the teller, so all ATMs are fee-free. Yo umay not have the full services on every ATM, for example deposit of cash/checks is only offered on select ATMs of your own bank, but at least you can get your money everywhere without paying to get your own money. But not in USA, except for a network of Credit Unions, which I quickly moved my accounts to, to get away from the bank syndicat.
So - I see the different charging networks similar to the problem that the banks created for their customers in USA: you have to stay "in network" or you either are denied or pay an additional fee for the service. I am still happy that my truck is being charged 99% of the time from a standard wall outlet. It may take a while, but I am not required to support a devisive system. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: cwa...@proxim.com Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goren via EV Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 9:04 AM To: Peri Hartman; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Tesla Vs UK's Ecotricity Dispute - MoreBackgroundInformation... On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > The problem, in the US anyway, is that generally each company requires a membership to use their station. Exactly. Imagine if Ford had its own gas stations which were the only places to fill Ford vehicles and which only let Ford vehicles use the pumps, and the same with Toyota, VW, and every other manufacturer. Pure chaos and insanity. However, I'm sure there's some interbreeding between the marketing departments for printer ink and cell phone charger manufacturers and electric vehicle makers, so I wouldn't at all be surprised to see EVs fall into the trap that they're already rushing towards.... b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140809/d4c1 73d9/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
