I remember anti-EV efforts by some of the OEMs, but I would disagree that there was anti-EV hate on the part of the general public. I heard nothing but support for efforts in that area, and I worked on it since the 80's.
- Mark From: brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EVDL] Free Street Light L1 charging? Date: 4/12/16, 1:55 AM [ref http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Free-Street-Light-L1-charging-tp4681452.html ] I agree with what was posted, that to plug-in would be asking for trouble, and likely you would not get much power = not worth it. EV History: I remember way back in the early 1990's when public EVSE was non-existent, so finding an L1 outlet was gold. While I did have permission to plug into an up-high outlet I had found, I had to regularly go out and check on it as it was 'fun' for the public to walk by and jerk the extension cord (unplugging it from the up-high outlet). You have to keep in mind Oil and Auto were paying huge amounts of money back then to splash the paper media with anti-EV copy (Internet wasn't much to speak of back then & not many were on it to mean anything). So, a lot of EV-hate was put in the minds of the public back then. Not-so-funny how the Internet has been sanitized to remove all such spew from back then (bad-deeds covered up). On another occasion back then, I had just received my S-10 Blazer EV back from the multiple on-board charger updates I paid for. I parked along Saratoga-CA's downtown streets on a cold drizzly-wet late afternoon to plug in to try the new chargers out. The city had left their street tree-lighting outlets on during the day (its affluent tax base were oblivious to wa$te). While I was right that no one really knew what I was doing plugging into the L1 receptacles at the base of each street tree, see http://www.tripimize.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_2262.jpg I found that those outlets must have been wired with long runs of 16 gauge as I was lucky to get even 5A out of them. I also ran the risk of putting more than one charger on the same breaker (which could have tripped breakers). I disconnected and coiled up my extension cords once I had proven I could plug into multiple outlets and charge. I also had found out those street outlets were not good for charging as they were only good for what they were intended: strings of tiny lights up in the street trees to get/keep her in the mood, etc. Along those streets were expensive shops and over-priced restaurants for visiting over-paid geek-engineers to come and blow money. As I was about to leave, I remember seeing such a guy (wearing BCGs) who was just arriving, likely for a date. I had seen his type all too often at the then booming Silicon Valley Hi-Tech companies. Though he might have been a valuable mental-asset at work, it was a wonder if he could walk and chew gum at the same time ... (Ahh, Vive L'Amour). For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} ... http://www.dictionary.com/browse/coke-bottle-glasses BCGs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Free-Street-Light-L1-charging-tp4681452p4681464.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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160412/4dbec8be/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
