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Our main campus has parking for roughly 450 cars. We just added EV charging; two entire parking slots. There's no way our company would outfit every spot with c
by greedo 4y ago
Our main campus has parking for roughly 450 cars. We just added EV charging; two entire parking slots. There's no way our company would outfit every spot with charging in any reasonable future. We already have roughly 35 EVs on the lot.
- pornel 4y agoWhen a car is parked for 8 hours, even the slowest 3kW charger will charge 70-90 miles of range. Low-power AC "chargers" are dumb devices, basically just wire. They don't require active cooling, and all of the expensive hardware is in the car. They could be installed on every single parking spot.
- greedo 4y agoOur lot isn't closed, and it's adjacent to a mall. So the only way we'd electrify each spot is with pay outlets (which is what the current 2 are). Otherwise we'd have people leeching off of the company.
- pornel 4y agoYou're overthinking this. The solution can be as trivial as putting a padlock on the power outlet. More practically, there are dispensers that read RFID cards, so employee badges can be used to grant access. It can be a raspberry-pi level tech, not a full-blown payment terminal.
- kadoban 4y agoYou could even just throw up a sign and once in a while tow people who cheat. Not like it's really going to cost a ton anyway.
- jjav 4y agoThis is a well-solved problem. My previous employer had all the chargers on the chargepoint network but only available to accounts which verified as employees.