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Road rage? Try plug-in rage
25 June 2012
You knew it was bound to happen. Todd Woody has a great piece in Forbes this month about how his parking-structure charging session was hijacked by another electric vehicle owner.
"Had the (Ford) Focus not texted my iPhone, I would have returned hours later after meeting friends for drinks to find the car virtually uncharged, leaving me stranded with the garage about to close."
Nobody came to blows, thankfully, but the incident highlights not only the need for a better charging infrastructure but also better electronics monitoring (if the offender's claim that Woody's charging session appeared over).
The larger issue remains one of policy, and, if comments to Woody's piece are any indication, we're still debating the fundamentals of electric vehicles. Let the healthy debate continue but let's not come to blows.
Jon Titus July 10, 2012 at 11:36 am
OK, you plug into a charging station and close a cover over the outlet. The cover locks into place and doesn’t open until your charge time ends or you again swipe your credit card. I assume charging stations take credit cards. If not, they should. Charging stations might offer a good application for near-field communications (NFCs) from smart phones to convey and confirm payment info.
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William Ketel July 7, 2012 at 7:22 pm
IT is something that had to happen eventually, that somebody else would decide that they needed to use the lone charging outlet that was accessible to more than one parking spot. Fairly rude indeed, but on the other side of the issue is the fact that the only charging spot that you can really claim is the one on your property. Why should anybody believe that they have a right to a public connection? Even moreso if it is actually a charger, not just an outlet. I am aware that in cities in northern Canada each parking spot has an outlet for plugging in an engine heater during their arctic winters there. Of course that is a lower current service connection, but still, every spot has one.In reality, we can probably expect a fair amount of unplugging to happen as the plug-in cars become more common. What a great way to sabotage a Japanese car! And no tools needed. Probably the less intelligent versions of those who write computer virus code will now be unplugging re chargeables for some undisclosed reason. We do have those malcontents that do that sort of stuff.