03-07-2021, 02:24 PM | #519 |
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What I have wondered about for quite some time is, what about charging your car while at work?
How many companies, in an effort to promote EV vehicles, would install charging stations themselves for employees to use? Obviously I'm only talking about a limited number of charging stations, similar to the usual number of 'handicapped' parking spaces. IF charging stations were available at work, people could just charge ther cars while working. However, what I always wonder about is, would the employer provide them at no cost to the individual as a way to promote the use of EV's, OR would those charging stations be available at some sort of cost to the user. and if so, how would the user pay or be billed? If charging stations were available at work, this would at least help those people that either can't afford a charging system at home or can't have a charging station at home due to living in an apartment, etc. ? |
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The way it works today for public charging stations is you have a keycard for the network you normally use. We have ChargePoint keycards for use with our Volt. So when I park in front of the RenCen, I use the ChargePoint card. GM covers the cost, but if they didn’t, it would go against our ChargePoint account. EZGo, ChargeAmerica and others do the same. Ford is setting up their EV owners with a FordPass system that works as a go between with all the systems, so the Ford EV owner doesn’t have to have multiple charger access cards dangling from their keychain.
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03-07-2021, 03:20 PM | #521 |
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I guess I'm more wondering about smaller companies that have say, less than 300-400 employees.
It would make perfect sense for the automotive companies themselves to provide charging stations. For charging stations at work where there would be possibly more EV users than stations, would there possibly be a way for the charging stations to limit your charge time by either a predetermined charging duration (ie 3 hours perhaps) or by notifing you that the charge is complete urging the charging user to move his car from the charging station to a regular parking spot and freeing up the station for another user? It wouldn't be fair to others if a user plugs his EV in when they arrive in the morning and having their EV charged in just a few hours yet remain for the duration of their shift when there are others needing a charge ? |
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I know small companies that are struggling with parking spots to start with. Now you want them to provide charging on top of parking?
And remember that companies probably have to pay to get those charging stations built themselves, including all the wiring. It's the same reason why apartments will be tricky with a proposed all-EV scenario. Lots of infrastructure change and cost are involved here.
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A. the company provides the stations no cost to the user as a way of promoting the use of EVs. B. The company provides the stations but charges the users for their use, thus recouping the installation costs. Of course all of this would be an option for each company. They would have to decide if they have enough space to dedicate a few spaces to chargers, plus, do they even have enough EV users working there to make sense to even offer the stations at all. |
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Most, if not all new EVs have an app that tells you when your car is done charging, so you can go out and move it. Our first Volt back in 2012 had that feature and so does our 2017. Can’t imagine an EV without it.
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To MartinJim.
As a longtime owner of the hybrid Volt, do you see a full EV in your near future ? |
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And FWIW, the Volt is actually a short range EV with a gas engine range extender. GM got tired of trying to explain that to people and stopped arguing when people call it a hybrid. Hybrids run on a blend of gas and electric and switch back and forth between the two. Volt operates on electric until it can’t. Then it turns on the engine to charge the battery and to send power to the electric motor while the battery is being charged.
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The Lyriq looks interesting. I just wonder what it will sell for. After all, it IS a Cadillac.
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I'll bet that someone will come up with a solution to this problem and I'll also bet it will cost these people a lot of money to take advantage of it.
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When I think of these guys charging for free, while I'm paying for gas, it makes me want an EV pretty bad. Help me offset the gas guzzling muscle car from the 60's destined for my garage in the next few years.
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