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[Ingomike]

Having your own charger at home solves the vast majority of these charging issues.

So the this boondoggle is for the rich? Those that can afford to have their own homes? This leaves out the majority of renters in the country.

A friend was recently assigned an EV as their sales vehicle. I asked if they issued a charger? No. I then asked if they had chargers at the office? No. He has to find public chargers to travel for work. Ridiculous!

If I had a bar I would put ten or twenty chargers in, charge a high price for charging, and offer happy hour cheap drinks to customers charging. They put my expensive charging on their company card while swilling my cheap drinks….

 

[Ingomike]

They are already limiting your charging abilities. Imagine if there were a % or 2 more EV’s on the road! Can you say cluster f

Introducing the Latest EV Headache: 'Charger Hogs' Causing Endless Lines at Charging Stations

To attempt to address the growing issue of ill-mannered electric vehicle owners hogging fast chargers, Electrify America is experimenting with a strict limit at 10 of its busiest charging stations in California.

www.breitbart.com

So one of the biggest issues is range and they now are going to exacerbate the problem by not letting people charge to full.

 

[KLB]

So one of the biggest issues is range and they now are going to exacerbate the problem by not letting people charge to full.

You don't usually charge to 100%. Generally it is 80-90%?

 

[KLB]

So the this boondoggle is for the rich? Those that can afford to have their own homes? This leaves out the majority of renters in the country.

If you mean owning one, no. There is no boondoggle. I am giving my perspective from actually owning one. I'll leave the political side of it to you.

A friend was recently assigned an EV as their sales vehicle. I asked if they issued a charger? No. I then asked if they had chargers at the office? No. He has to find public chargers to travel for work. Ridiculous!

That is stupid.

If I had a bar I would put ten or twenty chargers in, charge a high price for charging, and offer happy hour cheap drinks to customers charging. They put my expensive charging on their company card while swilling my cheap drinks….

And you'd be sued the first time one of them was in an accident.

 

[actaeon277]

They can do what they want.
And the consumer can do what they want

 

[actaeon277]

Also, aren't a lot of "city homes" without garages?

How do they charge?

 

[KLB]

Also, aren't a lot of "city homes" without garages?

How do they charge?

A lot of Condos and flats. A lot of those people in the big cities don't even own cars.

Public Chargers.

 

[actaeon277]

A lot of Condos and flats. A lot of those people in the big cities don't even own cars.

Public Chargers.

Which people are complaining about being filled.
Maybe, instead of trying to get everyone on the EV train, they should work on the infrastructure

 

[KLB]

Which people are complaining about being filled.
Maybe, instead of trying to get everyone on the EV train, they should work on the infrastructure

The whole forcing people to EVs is dumb. Pretty much everyone here agrees it's dumb. Even those of us that have EVs.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

So the this boondoggle is for the rich? Those that can afford to have their own homes? This leaves out the majority of renters in the country.

A friend was recently assigned an EV as their sales vehicle. I asked if they issued a charger? No. I then asked if they had chargers at the office? No. He has to find public chargers to travel for work. Ridiculous!

If I had a bar I would put ten or twenty chargers in, charge a high price for charging, and offer happy hour cheap drinks to customers charging. They put my expensive charging on their company card while swilling my cheap drinks….

And send them on their way after they're drunk from drinking your cheap drinks and waiting on their car to charge? Um...

 

[Ingomike]

And you'd be sued the first time one of them was in an accident.

And send them on their way after they're drunk from drinking your cheap drinks and waiting on their car to charge? Um...

How is that any different than any other happy hour promotion?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

How is that any different than any other happy hour promotion?

I suppose it depends on how long it takes to charge their cars.

 

[actaeon277]

Happy hours return to Indiana beginning July 1 after governor signs bill lifting decades-old ban

As he signed the bill lifting that ban into law at a local Indianapolis bar, Holcomb said the measure “empowers” businesses to serve responsibly.

indianapublicmedia.org

 

[KLB]

Happy hours return to Indiana beginning July 1 after governor signs bill lifting decades-old ban

As he signed the bill lifting that ban into law at a local Indianapolis bar, Holcomb said the measure “empowers” businesses to serve responsibly.

indianapublicmedia.org

"Empowers" them to serve responsibly. Ugh. It shouldn't be the bars job to babysit their patrons.

 

[actaeon277]

"Empowers" them to serve responsibly. Ugh. It shouldn't be the bars job to babysit their patrons.

I agree.

But, I know that "happy hours" were illegal here until a little while ago, so I had to look it up.

 

[Ingomike]

"Empowers" them to serve responsibly. Ugh. It shouldn't be the bars job to babysit their patrons.

Licensed bars and servers are trained and bound by law not to serve visibly impaired customers and have been as long as I can remember.

 

[KLB]

Licensed bars and servers are trained and bound by law not to serve visibly impaired customers and have been as long as I can remember.

There you go again telling us the law we know is there, when we are discussing what should be.

 

[Ingomike]

There you go again telling us the law we know is there, when we are discussing what should be.

So bars and servers “should” be serving visibly impaired customers? That is retarded…

 

[actaeon277]

So bars and servers “should” be serving visibly impaired customers? That is retarded…

So you're saying that customers have no responsibility themselves? That they need babysitters?

 

[Ingomike]

So you're saying that customer’s have no responsibility themselves? That they need babysitters?

Do you not know any alcoholics? I fully support laws prohibiting servers from serving visibly impaired customers more alcohol. Would you think it cool if the local bar kept feeding drinks, to run up the tab, to your friend that had too much alcohol and was no longer capable of rational decisions? The business of serving mind altering substances in public comes with as much responsibility as that of the imbiber.

I ask again, bars and servers “should” be serving visibly impaired customers?