On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ironically, every parking meter I've ever seen already charges *way* more per > hour than the cost of the electricity you could get from an AC outlet on that > meter. Oh, it's worse than that. Much worse. At $5 / hour...that's $120 / day, which is over $3600 / month. That's a couple times a not uncommon suburban mortgage in the Phoenix metro area. All for a few dozen square feet of asphalt!? Regardless, those who charge for parking meters will most certainly see charging as a premium service for those meters and charge accordingly, marginal cost to them be damned. They'll probably start at at least double, if not triple or more, of the non-charging rate (though there may well be free introductory trials or what-not). And, once that gets accepted as the "new normal," they'll figure out a way to do away with the non-charging rate. Places that _don't_ charge for parking today almost certainly won't charge for parking + charging in the future, and they'll have even more people prefer them to the alternates. But I'm sure the vultures will show no mercy given the opportunity. ...now might be a good time to start thinking about ways to prevent these kinds of exploitation without slowing down deployment of streetside charging infrastructure. Maybe somebody should start lobbying the right politicians today...? 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/20141124/f629e7f9/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)
